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Kevin_Davies_40
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Aug 19, 2011

HTTPS VIP for HTTP Website

Given there are many ways to skin a cat. If you were setting up a https VIP for a http webserver how would you do it? Currently it seems you have to add a stream profile with an iRule to rewrite http ...
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Kevin_Davies_40
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Aug 23, 2011
I suppose the underlying question here is,

 

 

Don't people often offload SSL to their F5 because it has dedicated hardware processing? If that assumption is true then why am I writing an iRule to perform what seems to be an obvious requirement of mapping HTTPS to a HTTP website. You would think given the commonality of this requirement it would be a built-in feature.

 

 

Kevin