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Dan_24306
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Aug 14, 2013

Best practice for HTTP and HTTPS backend

Hello,   My company is trying to implement SSL on one of their legacy web sites. They already had an existing port 80 virtual server configured that would receive the traffic and then send it on t...
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Aug 14, 2013

We are offloading SSL on the VS and then sending the traffic to the servers on port 8081. We don't need SSL all the way through so it looks like we are ok to use the same backend port 8081 for both the port 80 VS and 443 VS since we are not re-encrypting the traffic. Thank you for the input!