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jeebustrain_421
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Sep 08, 2009

rewrite http hyperlinks as https inside SharePoint

Hi,     This is my first post here, so my apologies if this is something that has been covered ad-nauseum (I couldn't find anything using search). I'll also start out by saying that I am no...
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hoolio
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Sep 08, 2009
If you enable a stream profile on the virtual server without an iRule, LTM will apply the stream filter to both requests and responses. This includes client POST requests (which you probably don't want to rewrite) as well as binary response content (which probably won't match the find string but can consume a lot of extra LTM resources).

 

 

There is an existing Request For Enhancement (RFE) open with F5 Support which requests F5 provide a GUI option for enabling the stream profile on requests and/or responses. It would also be ideal if they allowed you to configure a filter on the Content-Type value as well.

 

 

Until the GUI options are improved, you would be much better off using an iRule with STREAM::expression (Click here) to configure the stream profile dynamically per request. There are some fairly detailed examples on how to do this on the wiki page.

 

 

That said, you could probably avoid any configuration changes on LTM by properly configuring Sharepoint to use HTTPS references to itself using Alternate Access Mappings. Check this post for some related info:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=3352955976

 

 

Aaron