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Cirrostratus
CirrostratusPassing 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...
hoolioCirrostratus
CirrostratusI would like to avoid creating another IRULE for the other VIP as this is used for LOTS of othr applications and I am not sure the impact that doing this would have on the other applications.
If you remove any pre-existing instances of a custom header name and then insert the base64 encoded copy of the cert in that header name, it would be fairly cheap resource-wise to look for that header on a second VS. You could then only base64 decode the header value if it's present.
Aaron
