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El_Jefe
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Jul 11, 2011

Append FQDN to https request

Hello,     I am sure this has been asked many times, but I could not find it in search. We use our F5s here internally, and the users can get to the websites using an internal hostname - like ht...
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hoolio
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Jul 11, 2011
Hi Jeff,

If the first request is for https://server1 then the error occurs before LTM decrypts the SSL and could modify the HTTP headers. If the clients make an HTTP request first to http://server1, then you could redirect their HTTP request to HTTPS with the fully qualified domain name: 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   HTTP::redirect https://server1.companyxyz.com[HTTP::uri]
}

Aaron