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vineyard_166933
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Sep 25, 2014

Document type changed after rewriting Stream.

Hi. Internet Explorer some times work in mysterious ways. We SSL ofloaded a webserver, client (443) ltm (80) Webserver. It was necessary to rewrite parts of the stream from http to https in the resp...
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vineyard_166933
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Sep 26, 2014

Gave up on this, "solved" it by reencrypting the traffic between ltm and resin webserver. It's strange though, headers told client to emulate IE7. Internet Explorer choose 5.

 

I read emulateIE7 will give document type 5 in some instances, but not sure what those instances are and whats triggering it trough LTM.

 

The setup for this was: 2 Virtual servers: 1 http vs for redirect and 1 https vs Used: http redirect rewrite profile ssl offloading secure cookie irule disabled some weak ciphers added an empty stream and rewrote the body of content types "text" and "json" from "http:" to "https:" quickconnect profile