Getting the client request domain from Lambda@Edge function

Question

I'm trying do something like below for HTTP 301 redirect, so that web users will redirect to different news pages.

    if ((request.uri == "/news") || (request.uri == "/news/") && (request.origin.domainName == "sub.mydomain.com")) {

        
        const redirectResponse = {
            status: '301',
            statusDescription: 'Moved Permanently',
            headers: {
                'location': [{
                    key: 'Location',
                    value: '/local-news/',
                }],
                'cache-control': [{
                    key: 'Cache-Control',
                    value: "max-age=3600"
                }],
            },
        };
        callback(null, redirectResponse);
   
  }

However, seems like this request.origin.domainName == "mydomain.com" part is not working in my function. Is this correct way to pick the domain name which client coming from?

I think this request.origin.domainName method will not work as Origin Object support only for Origin requests. Is there any possibility, that I can get the domain name which client coming from for the Viewer requests?

The reason I need this is, I've multiple domains, that users access the same CloudFront distribution. Hence, when user coming from different domains, user must be redirected to different news sites.

Can anyone support me on this?

Answer 1

If you want to get distribution Domain Name

  const distributionDomain = event.Records[0].cf.config.distributionDomainName;

The more information You can find in AWS Documentation

Also, check

Lambda@Edge Example Functions

Doc

accessing origin URL from AWS lambda@edge

Also, try this way

'use strict';

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
    const response = event.Records[0].cf.response;
    const request = event.Records[0].cf.request;
    const hostHeader = request.headers['host'][0].value;
    callback(null, response);
};

hostHeader should be the CNAME(domain name)

The more info here

Answer 2

In order to get the real client domain (hostname) in lambda edge origin request event - you must set an Origin request policy on the behaviour your lambda is running on:

1. go to your distribution
2. go to bahaviour and click edit (where your lambda is invoked)
3. set set an Origin request policy: Managed-AllViewerAndCloudFrontHeaders-2022-06

the request look like this: 2024-01-17T21:47:20.808Z 04f76459-6b43-47f4-bc8d-401e52af458c INFO request: { "clientIp": "93.206.59", "headers": { "host": [ { "key": "Host", "value": "stag.niil.co.il" } ], "cloudfront-is-mobile-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-Mobile-Viewer", "value": "false" } ], "cloudfront-is-tablet-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-Tablet-Viewer", "value": "false" } ], "cloudfront-is-smarttv-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-SmartTV-Viewer", "value": "false" } ], "cloudfront-is-desktop-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-Desktop-Viewer", "value": "true" } ], "cloudfront-is-ios-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-IOS-Viewer", "value": "false" } ], "cloudfront-is-android-viewer": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Is-Android-Viewer", "value": "false" } ], "accept-language": [ { "key": "Accept-Language", "value": "en-US,en;q=0.9,he-IL;q=0.8,he;q=0.7" } ], "accept": [ { "key": "Accept", "value": "image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/,/*;q=0.8" } ], "referer": [ { "key": "Referer", "value": "https://stng.mi.co.il/" } ], "cloudfront-forwarded-proto": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Forwarded-Proto", "value": "https" } ], "x-forwarded-for": [ { "key": "X-Forwarded-For", "value": "93.2.59" } ], "user-agent": [ { "key": "User-Agent", "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/57.36" } ], "via": [ { "key": "Via", "value": "2.0 1a425dcbf8d7a7da.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)" } ], "accept-encoding": [ { "key": "Accept-Encoding", "value": "br,gzip" } ], "sec-ch-ua": [ { "key": "sec-ch-ua", "value": ""Not_A Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="120", "Google Chrome";v="120"" } ], "sec-ch-ua-mobile": [ { "key": "sec-ch-ua-mobile", "value": "?0" } ], "sec-ch-ua-platform": [ { "key": "sec-ch-ua-platform", "value": ""macOS"" } ], "sec-fetch-site": [ { "key": "sec-fetch-site", "value": "same-origin" } ], "sec-fetch-mode": [ { "key": "sec-fetch-mode", "value": "no-cors" } ], "sec-fetch-dest": [ { "key": "sec-fetch-dest", "value": "image" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-http-version": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-HTTP-Version", "value": "2.0" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-country": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Country", "value": "IL" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-country-name": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Country-Name", "value": "Israel" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-country-region": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Country-Region", "value": "TA" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-country-region-name": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Country-Region-Name", "value": "Tel Aviv" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-city": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-City", "value": "Ramat Gan" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-time-zone": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Time-Zone", "value": "Asia/Jerusalem" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-latitude": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Latitude", "value": "32.08210" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-longitude": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Longitude", "value": "34.81220" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-address": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-Address", "value": "93.172.206.59:55502" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-tls": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-TLS", "value": "TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_GCM_SHA256:connectionReused" } ], "cloudfront-viewer-asn": [ { "key": "CloudFront-Viewer-ASN", "value": "1680" } ] }, "method": "GET", "origin": { "custom": { "customHeaders": {}, "domainName": "943351998-staging.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "keepaliveTimeout": 5, "path": "", "port": 80, "protocol": "http", "readTimeout": 30, "sslProtocols": [ "TLSv1.2" ] } }, "querystring": "", "uri": "/favicon/favicon-16x16.png" }