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Brian_107072
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Oct 28, 2009

secure redirect behind load balancer

Greetings,     We have some apps that are run behind a SSL terminating BigIP load balancer. All requests internally are handled on a single none secure port (8080).     When a re...
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hoolio
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Oct 29, 2009
Hi Brian,

 

 

As Matt said, you should be able to configure the application to send HTTPS redirects, but I'm not sure how. If you want to use an iRule, you can use one like this to rewrite the Location header value:

 

 

Rewrite HTTP Redirect Hostname

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/RewriteHTTPRedirectHostname.html

 

 

Rewrite HTTP Redirect Port

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/RewriteHTTPRedirectPort.html

 

 

Aaron