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boneyard's avatar
Jun 16, 2014

HSTS domain

not really an F5 question, but i do use an iRule to insert the header :)

 

does anyone has actual experience with HSTS* and on what level it is active? i read everywhere about the HSTS domain, so i expected that if i insert the header on a server called name.domain.ext it would be active for domain.ext. but when testing this on chrome it seems to make it active for name.domain.ext only. is this expected behavior?

 

*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

 

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  • based on some testing (Chrome 35, FireFox 28 / 30) i determined it is set on a host basis, not domain. so when i set the header for host1.domain.ext, then it is active for host1.domain.ext only. not for domain.ext and host2.domain.ext.