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jpeterson6
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Nov 16, 2017

HTTP Profile causing cert issues

Hi, We have a situation where a VIP configured as SSL Passthrough (No SSL Profiles) seems to cause certificate errors between client and backend server when the VIP is configured with an http profi...
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Simon_Blakely
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Nov 16, 2017

An HTTP profile only operates on decrypted data (i.e a client SSL profile that terminates SSL).

 

If you apply an HTTP profile to a SSL passthrough, the HTTP profile will terminate the connection (because the traffic is not valid HTTP).