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CSA
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Oct 01, 2012

Reverse proxy for login page

Hi,   I'm running a BigIP cluster with v11.2HF2. Here is my question.     I have a website hosted by a third party (let's call it THIRDPARTY) for my company (let's call it MYCOMPANY). . Th...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Oct 01, 2012
As others have stated, if DNS points users to another site, www.thirdparty.com, for login and that site IS NOT behind your BIG-IP, then you have no way of controlling the properties of the objects on the page. You would necessarily have to capture any redirects to www.thirdparty.com from inside your application, rewrite the Location header, and proxy the external site.

 

 

ie. www.mycompany.com/thirdparty

 

 

So the big question becomes: do users go to www.thirdparty.com FIRST, or to your application FIRST?