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Nov 03, 2011

Redirecting http request to external url via proxy

Hi,     we are using F5 load balancers for our Internet environment. There is now a requirement during customer login to download a trojan detection script at an external company. But for the cl...
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Nov 03, 2011
Hi Hamish,

 

 

I think setting up the F5 to be a SSL client shouldn't be a problem, this should be accomplished by using a standard serverssl profile without any key or certificate specified. The F5 should than act as an client in the SSL handshake.

 

Since we already use an iRule to select the pool based on the URI, I can disable ssl for all other URI's in the irule.

 

 

The proxies have been setup in transparent mode for SSL traffic, so they should not be involved in the SSL process. I think my biggest problem is getting the F5 to use a HTTP CONNECT method instead of the standard GET.