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Chris_Stierle_1
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratushttps://www.a.com/ to https://www.b.com redirect
Is there any way to use an irule to redirect https requests from one url to another in the case of a failure? Added to this is the fact that my ssl certs are on the servers and not on the F5s. I curre...
Unfortunately this isn't something that can be done due to two things.
1.) v4.x of the BIG-IP systems aren't Bi-directional proxies. This means that the traffic going out from the server to the customer isn't visible to the device.
2.) Even in BIG-IP v9.x, where the traffic coming from the server to the client would be visible, the SSL would have to be terminated on the BIG-IP so that it could read the packet information to determine whether there was a failure on the webserver.
HTH,
-Colin
