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Chris_199321
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Sep 27, 2016

How to send http post with https using irule

I am testing google Captcha 2.0 using irule. When F5 try to post the challenge result to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify, F5 posts it using http instead of https.

 

Please find the irule related to the connection to google as follow,

 

set conn [connect -timeout 1000 -idle 30 -protocol TCP $google_ip:443] send -timeout 1000 -status send_status $conn $recaptcha_verify_request

 

Please help with posting the challenge with HTTPS.

 

Thanks

 

application delivery
iRules
LTM

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  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
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    Sep 27, 2016

    Hi Chris,

    a SIDEBAND connection does not have a build-in SSL support.

    You have to point your SIDEBAND connection to a (helper) HTTP Virtual Server (e.g. HTTP:8888) that has an Server_SSL_Profile applied and finally points to a HTTPS:443 pool/node (aka. the https://GoogleSite).

    Then change the syntax of your iRule to...

    set conn [connect -timeout 1000 -idle 30 YOUR_VIRTUAL_NAME] 
send -timeout 1000 -status send_status $conn $recaptcha_verify_request

    Cheers, Kai