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pjcampbell_7243
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Feb 07, 2011

Offload a specific outbound ssl request?

Hi all     We have an issue where when our code goes out to check a 3rd party vendor for product inventory via HTTPS directly from the Java/apache webserver, the load spikes.     We coul...
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hooleylist
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Feb 07, 2011
Which load spikes? Is it LTM or the servers?

 

 

You can set up a local virtual server which points to a non-local pool. You can use a plaintext HTTP virtual server (no client SSL profile) and serverside SSL (server SSL profile). You'll need a route to the remote server(s) and SNAT on the virtual server to ensure the requests are proxied out and the response comes back through LTM.

 

 

Aaron