Configuring OCSP Stapling on BIG-IP

When setting up an SSL connection the cert tells you its expiration, but how do you tell if the SSL Cert has been revoked? There are multiple ways to do this. The first is the Certificate Revocation ...
Published Jan 26, 2016
Version 1.0
BIG-IP
ocsp
security
ssl
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Sam_Hall
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Sep 11, 2019

We haven't looked at it for a while, but I think we ended up determining that the F5 was caching a bad or failed OSCP response which upset Firefox. This was on version 12. I also kind of lost interest when I realised that OSCP stapling doesn't support the chain certificate anyway, so it won't eliminate the delay, only halve it. That coupled with the risk of denying access to the site it's supposed to speed up, I found it pretty disappointing overall and there doesn't seem to be any activity towards adding support for stapling chain certs since draft was raised 6 years ago... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611836