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Filip_Verlaeckt
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Mar 31, 2011

Automated secure file transfer

Hello     I am trying to solve the following problem:     What are the possibilities to organise file transfers initiated from a remote client to an internal server behind LTM?     R...
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hoolio
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Mar 31, 2011
The main disadvantage to HTTPS for file uploads/downloads is that it doesn't (easily?) support resumption for broken transfers. FTP/S offloading could potentially be done in an iRule, but when I tested, it was really hard to get it working. And trying to support multiple client types blew it up.

 

 

Aaron