HTTP and HTTPS VIPs

My guess is that the application generates links according to the protocol that the application was called on. So since the traffic between the BIG-IP and the server is http, the links become http instead of https. Either that or there are actually hard coded links in the application to http.

There are a few ways to deal with that - we could do a redirect of all http to https, but that will cause a lot of going back and forth between http and https by the client and isn't a very pretty solution. A far more powerful solution is to use the BIG-IP to in essence do a search and replace of http://www.site.com to https://site.com in the responses from the server. For instance by way of the stream profile,