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Nimbostratushow HTTP Profile works in VIP
I am starting my carrier in F5. Can somebody let me know what is HTTP profile in VIP and how it works ??
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natheCirrocumulus
Prasath, a http profile, like many other Profiles, inform the bigip on what the expected traffic is and can be used to interact with the traffic.
So, a http Virtual Server with a http profile will allow the bigip to read the http traffic and, for example, inject headers, cookies, create redirects etc.
This article should help further.
Hope this helps,
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Prasath_VarathaThanks Nathan, when i try to add Http profile on a https vip the traffic gets break and when i remove Http profile, it started to work properly. when i try to find answer for this the answer was to do not use HTTP profile. technically what is the actual reason Note:The VIP dont have SSL termination Thanks in advance for your reply
Renan_76501Hi Nathan, Does it mean that you are only going to use http profile if you want to manipulate http traffic? What if I don't want to control http traffic and I want to keep my SSL certificates on my local server, do I need to remove the http profile since I am not touching the http traffic?
- nathe
yes, that's right. Mark up if happy. :-)
RenanHi Nathan, Does it mean that you are only going to use http profile if you want to manipulate http traffic? What if I don't want to control http traffic and I want to keep my SSL certificates on my local server, do I need to remove the http profile since I am not touching the http traffic?
- nathe
yes, that's right. Mark up if happy. :-)
