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Jason_Weiss_481
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Aug 02, 2010

SSL Offloading SOAP services

I've got a set of SOAP web services implemented using WCF in .NET 4.0.

 

 

I'm trying to offload SSL to my LTM, but am having major difficulties.

 

 

Has anyone gotten this or something similar to work in their environments? This seems to be a common problem, but I can't find a clear answer in other venues.

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

 

Jason Weiss

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 03, 2010
    Hi Jason,

     

     

    I don't have any specific experience offloading SSL for web services. In concept though you should be able to define a VS with a client SSL profile on port 443 and the servers in a pool on port 80. What types of issues do you see when you try this?

     

     

    Aaron
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    Jason_Weiss_481
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    Sep 02, 2010
    I have set up the VM exactly like you suggest. The issue has to do with how to deal with the fact that the webservices think they're running unsecured, but the clients think they're secured. SOAP based webservices are apparently aware of their security environment.

     

     

    Unfortunately, it's more than just rewriting the links, as well (tried an i-rule to do that -- response came back looking good, but still didn't work properly).

     

     

    We ended up re-encrypting which defeats some of the purpose.

     

     

    I was hoping that someone had tried this before and got it working.

     

     

    Thanks for responding.

     

     

    Jason