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kend
Altostratus
AltostratusiRule to Select Pool by HTTPS Header
I am using an iRule I found on this site that selects a pool based on the http header and it works fine. I want to do this for https connections. Can the iRule I am using be modified to work for ht...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIt still doesn't matter. If you think of the proxy in terms of OSI layers, it might look like this:
Client -> L4 TCP -> L5/6 SSL -> L7 HTTP -> L6/5 SSL -> L4 TCP -> Server
HTTP layer 7 sits between the client side SSL and server side SSL. If you decrypt SSL on the client side, the HTTP traffic will be accessible to the HTTP filter. Whether or not you re-encrypt on the server side doesn't matter, because by that point in the proxy you've already left layer 7.
