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Phaneath_Phour1's avatar
Phaneath_Phour1
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Aug 17, 2018

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS

Hello DC,   I'm new with F5 iRule. And right now, I have an application using http port 8080 and I would like to use SSL offload between client to F5 and keep the same port 8080 with https.   I...
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jaikumar_f5
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Aug 17, 2018

This has been asked often and multiple threads are there.

Offloading SSL traffic causes improper redirects or links to HTTP

The solution was to update the http response headers, something like below.

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
    if { ( [HTTP::header exists Location] ) and ( [HTTP::header Location] contains "http://" ) } {
        HTTP::header replace [string map -nocase {"http://" "https://"} [HTTP::header Location]]
    }
}