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Mike_Harpe_6170
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Sep 29, 2010

SSL on client side only?

I have an application where the user wants the client side to be encrypted and use port 443. They would like the server side to be on port 80 unencrypted. Essentially they want the F5 doing the encryp...
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Sep 29, 2010
Posted By Mike Harpe on 09/29/2010 05:51 AM

 

Ok, got it. Just to make sure I understand, if no 'SSL Profile (Server)' is selected then the server side goes to port 80 regardless of the VIP port setting?

 

 

Not necessarily...your server-side port is determined by the default pool. Not selecting a server-side ssl profile simply means you aren't re-encrypting the data between LTM and the pool members.