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Aug 24, 2007

app check for ssl when cert is on F5

Apologies if this is not the correct forum for this question...     We have apps (jsp in this case) that are checking for an http vs https connection from the client to the web server. After mo...
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Posted By j.thomson on 08/24/2007 8:20 AM

 

 

most people tell the BIG-IP to insert an HTTP header (i.e.-HTTPS=true) and then the server checks for this header when deciding to redirect or not. Here's an example for weblogic. https://tech.f5.com/home/solutions/sol4443.htmlcommandline

 

 

 

I have a similar requirement where the F5 terminates SSL connections and passes thru http requests to an Apache httpd server onto a Weblogic Server.

 

I do not have access to the particular URL mentioned above - but going by your suggestion would be a bit cumbersome in our application since we have redirects in many different places within our JSP pages. Was wondering if there was a way to preserve the requestScheme for the requesting HTTPRequest without having to trap the HTTP header? This seems to be preserved when the SSL termination is done within Apache. The http request that is forwarded by the WebLogic plugin to the WLS server has the right requestScheme(https)

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Ramdas