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DaveC_21078
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Oct 13, 2010

https redirect without creating an http virtual server

I've always done an https redirect using an irule applied to an http virtual server that redirects to an https virtual server, which means 2 virtual servers for each site, of which I have many. Is th...
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hooleylist
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Nov 23, 2010
Hi David,

 

 

Non-SSL connections on the virtual server would allow clients to send HTTP to the virtual server. Clients are sending HTTP encrypted in SSL. With an HTTP profile and no client SSL profile, LTM won't be able to parse the traffic. If you add a client SSL profile to the virtual server, LTM will then be able to decrypt the HTTPS and parse it as HTTP with the HTTP profile.

 

 

Aaron