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Ian_Johnson_382
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Apr 04, 2011

Client Certificate authenication for a tcp connection

Hi All,     Is it possible to use Client Certificates to authentication a connection to a non HTTP/HTTPS application.     The ideal solution is that the user would run the client soft...
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Ian_Johnson_382
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Apr 06, 2011

Hi,

 

 

I am not trying to offload any SSL traffic and the backend are not HTTP servers.

 

 

I want to use the LTM to perform the authenication using client certificates. So the client application would first make a connection to do the authentication, then the client application will connect to the backend application over port 5000. This will open a tcp connection and backend server will start sending streaming data to the client.

 

 

Ian