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route_to_null_0
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Apr 15, 2009

Http versus HTTPS Traffic load on F5

How much extra processing load, time delay would use of https put instead of http

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  • James_Quinby_46's avatar
    James_Quinby_46
    Historic F5 Account
    Apr 15, 2009
    Many people offload SSL to their F5 gear as it's handled by special-purpose ASICs on the board. Very efficient and very fast.
  • route_to_null_0's avatar
    route_to_null_0
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    Apr 16, 2009
    Do we know or is there any comparative result, how much extra mem, cpu load, I/O load it will put versus http