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modyo_63245
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Nov 27, 2012

Help please with an LB&SSL configuration for a Rails APP

Hi,   I need to set up an iRule with an SSL certificate which connects the 443 port to the 80 of the backend servers (the communication between the balancer and backends are in plain http). Proble...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Nov 27, 2012
It's unlikely you'd need to use an iRule to configure the SSL termination on the F5, normally a ClientSSL profile would be used. You can use an iRule like this to insert the header - note I've assumed the value should be 'on' not 'https' as you think but I could be wrong; 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
 [HTTP::Header] insert HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SSL "on"
}