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rwsalisbury_191
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NimbostratusUsing SoapUI fails when testing F5 load balancer that is newly SSL Terminated
When we use a browser to connect to a server through a load balancer that was recently SSL Terminated, the response is normal, but when we use SoapUI to invoke a Soap web service on the server, we ge...
rwsalisbury_191Nimbostratus
NimbostratusThis was what was happening and how we resolved it:
The load balancer and the back-end server were not able to agree on a cipher to use for the SSL handshake, so BigIP sent the redirect back to the client.
After we enabled a cipher on the server that BigIP was using, the SSL handshake completed successfully, no redirection occurred, the HTTP POST went through to the server successfully, and a normal response was returned to the client.
- rwsalisbury_191Btw, I used the term "SSL Termination" in this issue, but should have been using the term "SSL Bridging", since we were required to have SSL between the load balancer and the server, as well as between the client and the load balancer.
