# F5 LTM initiates SSL connection  on the server-side

**URL:** <https://community.f5.com/t/f5-ltm-initiates-ssl-connection-on-the-server-side/75832>\
**Category:** Technical Forums\
**Tags:** application-delivery\
**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-ltm-initiates-ssl-connection-on-the-server-side/75832 "2025-03-03T22:04:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![REddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f9ae1b/32.png) [@REddy](https://community.f5.com/u/REddy)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-ltm-initiates-ssl-connection-on-the-server-side/75832/1 "2025-03-03T22:04:08Z")

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We have a virtual server which needs to route traffic to 3 pools based on the incomming uri. one pool has the servers listening on an ssl port and other 2 are non-ssl. The VIP has both client and server-side ssl provide applied. We have irule on the VIP to disable the server-side ssl for the 2 pools with non-ssl port. For some reason the F5 is trying to initiate an https server side connection and server listening on the non-ssl port responds with 400 (which is expected). Its not all the time though, its pretty sporadic and we have seen this in the pcaps.

elseif {[HTTP::uri] starts\_with “/abc/”}{  
set uri [HTTP::uri]&nbsp;  
#HTTP::uri [string map {“/abc/” “/def/”} $uri]  
#log local0. “[HTTP::uri]”  
SSL::disable serverside  
snat none  
pool xyz\_pool  
}

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Paulius](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/paulius/32/21698_2.png) [@Paulius](https://community.f5.com/u/Paulius)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-ltm-initiates-ssl-connection-on-the-server-side/75832/2 "2025-03-04T01:21:44Z")

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Are you positive that it’s not a health monitor that’s doing that? Do you have the rest of the configuration of this iRule so we can ensure something else isn’t causing an issue in the iRule?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Saleem](https://d1p9zq3aats0t8.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.f5.com/michael_saleem/32/7239_2.png) [@Michael\_Saleem](https://community.f5.com/u/Michael_Saleem)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://community.f5.com/t/f5-ltm-initiates-ssl-connection-on-the-server-side/75832/3 "2025-03-04T11:40:28Z")

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Maybe when this happens, the URI in the client’s HTTP request starts with /abc instead of /abc/.

I would verify that the URI being sent has a trailing forward slash.