Configure the F5 BIG-IP as an Explicit Forward Web Proxy Using LTM
In a previous article, I provided a guide on using F5's Access Policy Manager (APM) and Secure Web Gateway (SWG) to provide forward web proxy services. While that guide was for organizations that are...
Updated Dec 08, 2022
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Paulius
MVP
MVPSam_D_the reason the wildcard VS is necessary is because that is what creates the forward proxy tunnel between the BIG-IP and the destination that you are trying to reach through the forward proxy. If you didn't have this you wouldn't be able to dynamically configure the destination the way the wildcard VS does. I'm also glad that the article did help sort out the confussion you had on priority of VS.