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Prince
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Nov 13, 2017

Public SSL cert on F5 and Self Signed on Server

Hello Folks,   If planning to implement SSL bridging with external cert installed on F5 and backend server uses self signed, would like to know   1) Will clients get an error while accessing th...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Nov 13, 2017

1) Will clients get an error while accessing the website ? 2) If not, in which case will client get the error as backend server is using self signed cert

 

No, they won't. By default the F5 does not care about the validity of the server side certificate. The client and server SSL profiles are separate in the configuration. The Client profile is used against, no suprise here, the clients, and the server side profile against the server.

 

Since the F5 is a full proxy just like Shann_P states above the two sides are handled separately.

 

/Patrik