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Allwin
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Dec 22, 2020
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Client Side SSL Encryption while response from F5

Hi,   I have a query, wherein, i have a application hosted behind my F5. I have configured client SSL profile so as to offload the certificate and send the traffic unencrypted to the backend serv...
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  • Mayur_Sutare's avatar
    Mayur_Sutare
    Dec 22, 2020

    Hi,

     

    I think, application is redirecting it to http again. Can you please confirm below points ?

     

    1. Do you have F5 VS running on port 80 with same IP which is used for https VS?
    2. And you have mapped same pool/irule to above VS.

     

    If above points are true in your case, you should remove pool/irule from port 80 VS and add F5 provided http-to-https iRule to it. So F5 will again redirect that request to https.

     

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Mayur_Sutare
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Dec 22, 2020

Yes, client will receive it as HTTPS. Although request will go to http first as application is redirecting it but it will get automatically redirected to HTTPS by F5 iRule. So F5 HTTP VS will be used only for redirection purpose and all data traffic will be handle by HTTPS VS.

 

This configuration will also redirect client request to HTTPS if someone tries to access it using HTTP.

 

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    Allwin
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    Dec 22, 2020

    Thanks Mayur