F5 SSL Offload: Error on first visit to site, against an HTTPS page

Hi Aaron,

 

 

Answers inline:

 

 

Q: What is the error that the client sees on the first request that fails? Is it page cannot be displayed or some other message?

 

A: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

 

 

Q: If you use a browser plugin like Fiddler for IE or HttpFox for FF, can you post anonymized copies of the request/response headers?

 

A: Fidler dump:

 

 

RAW dump of the header:

 

 

Request Header:

 

GET /MYSITE/Service/contentviewer.aspx?ID=AboutUs&Menu=Footer&MasterPage=AboutOurProducts.master HTTP/1.1

 

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.36 Safari/525.19

 

Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

 

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,bzip2,sdch

 

Cookie: LinkShare=; CS_Anonymous={267c4238-0d45-489c-8fe5-48e5a8b06775}; ASP.NET_SessionId=ifmnvpnsoo5qrnu3bvmdt555

 

Accept-Language: en-US,en

 

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,*,utf-8

 

Host: MYWEBSERVER:8000

 

Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

 

 

 

Response header:

 

HTTP/1.1 502 Fiddler - Connection Failed

 

Content-Type: text/html

 

Connection: close

 

Timestamp: 11:16:43:2651

 

 

[Fiddler] Connection to MYWEBSERVER failed.

 

Exception Text: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it MYLOADBALANCER.com:8000