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Matias_Morbidel
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Jul 11, 2017

send HTTPS without descrypt

Hi, I client asked me about if it is possible to balancing https traffic without decrypt the packets in our F5. He doesn´t want our F5 open his packets. Is it possible send https traffic directly to ...
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Leonardo_Souza
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Jul 11, 2017

Yes, just don't add any clientssl or serverssl profile to the virtual server. The SSL handshake, encryption, and decryption will be handled by client and server.

 

Don't forget that as you are not able to see the HTTP payload, you can't add a HTTP profile to the virtual server, neither you can use cookie persistence for example.