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Mahendra_Satras
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusre-routing requests
Current set up in F5 -
Virtual Server list -
name:httpInternet,default pool-dpool,port-80
name : httpsInternet, default pool - dpool, port - 443
name :ws, default pool - wspool , port - 80
I apply an IRule on 'httpInternet' for re-routing requests to a different pool (wspool) if a certain condition is met.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/blah" } {
pool wspool
}
}
The above works great.
But if I apply the same rule on 'httpsInternet', the requests are not re-routed.
I change the IRule that is applied to 'httpsInternet' to -
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/blah" } {
HTTP::redirect http://[HTTP::host] [HTTP::uri]
}
}
and it would work but the SSL session with client is not maintained any more.
Is there a way where I can maintain a SSL session and have this working?
Thanks in advance.
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi,
If you want the BIG-IP to be able to inspect or respond to HTTP, you need to decrypt the HTTPS traffic with a client SSL profile. If you need to use SSL between the BIG-IP and the nodes, you can use a server SSL profile in addition to the client SSL profile.
You can't pass the SSL through the BIG-IP and add a rule which inspects or modifies the HTTP content though.
Aaron