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LyonsG_85618
Cirrostratus
Nov 16, 2012Passing decoded certficates in HTTP header
Hi folks.
I have been requested to setup BIG-IP to request certificate authentication and then insert the WHOLE UNENCODED certificate into the HTTP header and pass it to a differnt virtua...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
Nov 16, 2012That's an OpenSSL representation of a certificate and NOT what it really looks like. A certificate is either binary (DER ASN.1 encoded) or PEM (a base64 encoding of the DER). So you have a few options:
1. Recreate this structure (or some portions of it) using the various X509 commands.You probably still want to encode it somehow to pass into the HTTP header.
2. Pull out just the pieces you need and pass as HTTP headers
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