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portoalegre
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Feb 20, 2013

HTTPS Persistence (Sharing load)

I have pair of DMZ servers load balanced using an F5 which is also on the DMZ.   1 VS listening on port 443 (this VIP has a client SSL cert configured on the VIP)   behind this VS sits a server...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Feb 20, 2013
Cookie persistence is supported in the HTTP protocol, not to be confused with HTTPS which is HTTP over SSL. HTTPS isn't a protocol unto itself. Plus, the fact that you have a client SSL profile applied to the VIP means you're decrypting the HTTPS traffic at the BIG-IP, which means it can see the clear text HTTP data and can absolutely utilize cookies for persistence.