Redirecting back and forth between HTTP and HTTPS virtual servers for the same site

I'm not clear on what exactly is meant by the "login component" but if the HTML that the server sends back to the client contains the https://mysite.com/default_ssl.aspx link, if the user clicks on that the browser will request the content over 443 by default. The LTM will simply answer from the 443 VS. Likewise for any http links that are embedded in the HTML coming from the https connection. You don't need any redirects for default browser behavior.

 

 

One caveat here is if you are using persistence and you want to make sure that sessions over port 80 and sessions over port 443 are load-balanced to the same server, you need to make sure your persistence profile has the "Match across services" option enabled. Otherwise connections to port 80 and connections to port 443 will be handled independently.

 

 

Denny