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wavesmasher
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Aug 11, 2025
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Using LTM to hide an untrusted certificate

I'm new to F5/LTM, and I'm curious if this is possible.    There's an appliance owned by a external vendor that uses a self-signed certificate. The appliance serves up an HTTPS web page on TCP port...
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  • Injeyan_Kostas's avatar
    Injeyan_Kostas
    Aug 12, 2025

    Hello,

     

    Yes its totally feasible.

    You will have to create 2 Virtual server.

    1 for https and 1 for websocket port.

    Both will present your valid certificate and reencrypt the traffic before sending it to the appliance.

    You will also need to apply a websocket profile.

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Melissa_C
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Aug 25, 2025

Hello wavesmasher​, 

Thank you for posting to our community. I do see it this post has been up for some time with no response or update. If the response from Injeyan_Kostas has answered your question, or you have found the answer you were looking for we would greatly appreciate if you would update your post to reflect that. This can help you and other members who may have the same questions down the road. 

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