BIP IP Load Balancer/HTTPS/HTTP Redirect help

I need some direction or help with the following scenario.

 

 

Background:

 

- We have a cluster of 4 J2EE application servers and BIG IP (load balancer) infront of them.

 

- We installed a SSL certificate on BIG IP.

 

Between browser & BIG IP: HTTPS

 

- From the application server point of view the protocol is HTTP.

 

 

Issue:

 

- In our application code, we have sendRedirect to URLs in the same app server but a different context. After redirect, the protocol switches to HTTP.

 

https://www.company.com/context1/url1.html

 

 

response.sendRedirect("/context2/url2.html");

 

 

Now it switches back to HTTP:

 

http://www.company.com/context2/url2.html

 

 

 

Question:

 

- Is there anything that can be done in BIG IP to make sure if the original client request is HTTPS, make the redirects will also in HTTPs??

 

 

Any directions or guidance will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thank You,

 

Srini