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Nimbostratus

Apr 16, 2012

Random HTTPS Redirects?!?!

Hi there, I'm starting to configured some services on the F5 which support HTTP. Prior to this, all our services have been over HTTPS. However I'm having some issues with random HTTPS redire...

Nimbostratus

Apr 16, 2012

Just to add to this, I've started doing some packet captures at various points to be 100% sure that it's not an application/app server issue...

Running a tcpdump on the back-end application server, I can trace the TCP connection for my GET request, and confirm that the response returned DOESN'T have HTTPS in it.

So it looks like the F5 is doing the HTTP>HTTPS redirect...

Excerpt from the TCP dump is:

GET /Gateway-web HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5

Host: postgateway.go-aheadstaging.card.co.uk

Accept: */*

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5

Location: http://postgateway.go-aheadstaging.card.co.uk/Gateway-web/

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:25:29 GMT