Azure Web App HTTP/HTTPS rewrite rules - azure

Question

I have an angular app that I host in a Microsoft Azure Web Site. I've set it up with auto-redirect of all requests to HTTPS by installing an extension for me: https://github.com/gregjhogan/redirect-http-to-https-site-extension
What the extension app does is that it adds an applicationhost.xdt file which looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<configuration xmlns:xdt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform">
<location path="%XDT_SITENAME%" xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" xdt:Locator="Match(path)">
<system.webServer xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing">
<rewrite xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing">
<rules xdt:Transform="InsertIfMissing" lockElements="clear">
<rule name="redirect HTTP to HTTPS" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true" lockItem="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{WARMUP_REQUEST}" pattern="1" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
Now that works fine, and everything is redirected to HTTPS. Now I've come across a new requirement, and I want to edit the rewrite rule to the following: Redirect all requests to HTTPS (as it is now), except any url that contains the following: "/#/user/[Some random user id]".
I've read different posts, and tried some different stuff, but IIS setup and stuff like this isn't quite my domain, and I'm strugling finding it out. The try I feel like is close is when I added this {REQUEST_URI} condition:
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern=".*/#/user/.+" ignoreCase="true" />
<add input="{WARMUP_REQUEST}" pattern="1" negate="true" />
</conditions>
I've tried restarting the Azure Web App, as well as redeploying it, but it doesn't seem kick in, everything still redirects to HTTPS as the original rule applies.

Answer 1

I was testing your regex online, and it seems that you need to escape the forward slash:
\/#\/user\/.+
Tested string:
http://localhost/#/user/123
Tested regex:
\/#\/user\/.+
website:
http://www.regextester.com/

Answer 2

Try adding this to your Application_beginrequest event
if (!HttpContext.Current.Request.IsSecureConnection && !HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host.Contains("/#/user/[Some random user id]"))
{
Response.Redirect("https://" + Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_HOST"]
+ HttpContext.Current.Request.RawUrl);
}