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Jun 29, 2009

Sharepoint Content Editor Webpart dies behind F5

We made the move to put an existing Sharepoint 2007 site behind an LTM 6400 running 10.0.1, and using SSL Offloading.   The move went great, the Application Template made it super-easy... EXCEPT...
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Jul 01, 2009
Update:

OK so there actually was some info in the IIS log....

When it doesn't work:
    
 datetimes-ipcs-methodcs-uri-stemcs-uri-querys-portcs-usernamec-ipcs(User-Agent)sc-statussc-substatussc-win32-statustime-taken    
 6/30/200916:04:14WFE Node1 IPPOST/Programs/BetaMobile/_vti_bin/WebPartPages.asmx-80domain\admin.userF5 IPMozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+8.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+Trident/4.0;+GTB5;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.04506.30;+.NET+CLR+3.0.04506.648;+.NET+CLR+3.0.4506.2152;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+InfoPath.2;+MS-RTC+LM+8)50000546

When it does work:
    
 datetimes-ipcs-methodcs-uri-stemcs-uri-querys-portcs-usernamec-ipcs(User-Agent)sc-statussc-substatussc-win32-statustime-taken    
 6/30/200915:57:36FQDN IPPOST/Programs/BetaMobile/_vti_bin/WebPartPages.asmx-443domain\admin.userClient Workstation IPMozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+8.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+Trident/4.0;+GTB5;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727;+.NET+CLR+3.0.04506.30;+.NET+CLR+3.0.04506.648;+.NET+CLR+3.0.4506.2152;+.NET+CLR+3.5.30729;+InfoPath.2;+MS-RTC+LM+8)20000156

I can easily repro this error condition from any IE browser by simply moving the site back behind the F5. As well, not only can I not edit the contents of an existing page, I can't create a new one.

I can reliably perform these actions successfully from other browsers using the same creds (Firefox, Chrome, etc)