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vtortola_141944
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSSL off-loading and secure WebSocket
Hi,
We have a Big-IP load balancer, and we are planning to publish a web application that uses secure WebSockets (WSS).
We are a little bit concerned about how the load balancer is going to...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIf I may add, the point is that the F5 doesn't really understand the WSS protocol messages, so the HTTP profile would likely break it. If you don't use an HTTP profile and simply treat the traffic as TCP data, you can offload the SSL and optionally re-encrypt without touching the layer 7 data. It'd be like passing any other non-standard TCP-based protocol through the F5.