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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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ourback_109474
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Aug 14, 2013

It's fine to use the same pool for both HTTP and HTTPS virtual servers in this type of situation, so long as the backend doesn't need to distinguish between users accessing over SSL from those coming in plain text. (Though inserting a header can rectify that as well)