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Jack_Wang_168_2
Nimbostratus
Jul 27, 2015Https health monitor required authentication to work but back-end servers do not need authentication
LTM version:BIG-IP 10.2.4 Build 771.0 Hotfix HF6
Issue: back-end servers do not require authentication but The https health monitor required authentication to mark back-end servers UP.
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Kevin_Stewart
Employee
Jul 27, 2015I don't remember that applying particular cipher suit will automatic turn on basic authentication requirement. Right?
Correct. That has nothing to do with application authentication.
The difference is that I didn't have cipher suit in the curl command line
The HTTPS monitor lets you specify the cipher string, while cURL and wget just do it for you. You can indeed specify a cipher string in these utilities, but regardless the client (cURL) is definitely negotiating SSL with a set of supported ciphers.
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