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Chip_Anderson
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Nov 02, 2007

Applying iRules to SSL

Feeling like a noob right about now. We've been load balancing our SSL servers for years using just a regular Virtual Server hooked up to a standard pool, but now we need to add a simple iRule into t...
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Joe_Pruitt
Nov 05, 2007
You absolutely can use an iRule within a SSL Virtual, but only if your virtual is terminating the client SSL connection. Odds are you don't have a clientssl profile attached to your virtual to allow for decrypting the traffic. With out decryption on the BIG-IP, there's no way for the iRules engine to be able to look at the HTTP requests. Odds are that by applying the HTTP profile without clientside ssl, it's running into some trouble trying to map the encrypted content into a HTTP request.

 

 

-Joe