vtortola_141944
Jan 23, 2014Nimbostratus
SSL 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 handle this situation, because the SSL offloading. Is there anything special we have to configure or taken care off?
Clients will send an HTTPS request with a WebSocket handshake, that includes the HTTP headers "Upgrade:websocket" and "Connection:Upgrade". Will the load balancer populate those headers to the web server? Will the load balancer understand that those connections are persistent and non-HTTP?
Thanks.