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Damián_41877
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHow SSL client connections diverted to the servers as HTTP (clear text) or HTTPS (SSL) according to the URI
Hi
I know two basic modes for dealing HTTPS/SSL incoming client connections:
BIG-IP ends the SSL connection and send requests to the targer servers in "clear text" (HTTP).
BIG-IP...
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Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusDamián,
As SSL transactions happens prior to HTTP then I would guess not.
In regards point 2 there is a (relatively) new feature called Proxy SSL which doesn't terminate traffic on the LTM, so is passthrough, but does then have visibility of the encryption key so it can inspect the traffic too i.e. where you might need to offload traffic to ASM.
Rgds
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