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xMadi
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Feb 09, 2018

SSL interception on F5

Hello,   I am planning to intercept SSL on F5 to certain web servers to apply some iRules based on HTTP Headers. Currently I have Virtual server for HTTPS for those web servers. If I understand t...
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MvdG
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Feb 09, 2018

xMadi,

 

You are correct. You need to upload a valid certificate and use it in the client-ssl profile. If you do not care about the internal certificate, you can use the serverssl-insecure-compatible profile.

 

Instead of an iRule, maybe you can you a policy for the HTTP header based operations.

 

Regards, Martijn.

 

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xMadi
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Feb 09, 2018

Thanks. Well I will want to loadbalance on single Virtual server to different pools based on the HTTP Header field. Not sure if the HTTP Header based operations are suited for this.

 

Marek