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Stephen_Peters
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Jul 06, 2016

TCP to SSL Converstion

We have a requirement to allow a simple TCP client to connect to a Server that only supports SSL connections. Our client does not support the SSL protocol, but the target server only allows applicati...
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tatmotiv
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Jul 06, 2016

Is this application using http? If so, you do not need an iRule, just setup the virtual on the bigIP as standard virtual server on port 80 and attach an http and serverssl (no clientssl!) profile to it. That should do the job.

 

If you are using some other TCP-based protocol (non-http), you could try the same (omit the http profile then), but I think it will depend on the protocol whether it will work or not. I wouldn't bet on it in any case.

 

Good luck.