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Roman_80473
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Jan 11, 2012

SSL Termination with clear text response from web server

Hi folks,     This might be a silly question:   We terminate SSL and send traffic to non-secured web servers. We're having some issues encrypting clear text responses on proxy servers before ...
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hooleylist
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Jan 11, 2012
Hi Roman,

 

 

It sounds like the web app is using http:// references to itself instead of https:// in the response headers and/or payload. To fix this, you could look for configuration options in the web app itself to tell the app that it's being SSL proxied. Or you could rewrite the http:// references to https:// using a STREAM::expression based iRule:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.stream__expression.ashx

 

 

Aaron