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Shawn_Salyers_8
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Dec 16, 2010

Client Certificate Help Needed!!!!

I have been searching the forums and have not been able to find an iRule example that I am able to get working. Simply put, I need to require a client certificate and allow access based on the thumbp...
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hoolio
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Dec 17, 2010
This example is something you could start with:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/ClientCertificateCNChecking.html

 

 

You could add logic to one of those examples, which after validating the client cert, adds the client's ssl ssession ID to the session table:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/session

 

 

That way you could support SSL session resumption in the client SSL profile and only check the cert once per session.

 

 

Aaron