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Web Services, SSL, and self-signed server certificates

This question has come up again recently by a customer and I thought I'd post about it again. The customer downloaded the SDK, compiled the java sample applications, and tried to run them against one of their BIG-IPs. To their surprise the following ...

Using an iRule to Sort Out Spiders for Network Computing

In their most recent L4-L7 product review, Network Computing decided to base their testing off of the requirement of a real-world IT shop – CMP Media (Click here to see the results). This review demonstrated the importance of product flexibility and ...

Where the heck does the name F5 come from?

I got asked this question today. I've been around here long enough to have heard all the supposedly "true" origins of the company's name. The most frequent assumption I've heard is that the company is named after the "F5" key on a standard keyboard. ...

Requiring an SSL Certificate for Parts of an Application

When building many enterprise web-based applications, security must be taken seriously. iRules provide powerful capabilities for influencing security decisions when processing for your web services and applications. This is a rule for requiring a cli...

blogshares

Ok, I've had my blogshares listing for a while now and nobody has purchased even a single virtual share! I figure I could be a rogue and go buy back all my open virtual shares but that wouldn't be any fun. Maybe I'll bring this up at my next sharehol...

Perl: How to work with methods with multiple outbound parameters

I've seen this quesion asked in several forms so I thought I'd try to shed some light on how to handle accessing methods with multiple outbound parameters using Perl's SOAP::Lite: Let's take a look at these function prototypes: void func1(out string ...

Champagne on a Beer Budget

At Gartner Symposium this week, I've been sitting through some very interesting sessions presented by Gartner analysts. One of my favorites was given by Donna Scott and Deb Curtis. Both have some excellent thoughts on how to transform IT operations f...

A Methodology for Integrated Networks and Applications

Introduction A fundamental problem in IT today is the lack of process and coordination between network and application teams in designing and deploying applications or services. This lack of coordination results in missed opportunities; better more ...

News

I haven't been able to say much about this until now, but we've been very busy here at F5 as of late. I saw this link today on which is a precursor of things to come in the coming weeks. Along with the new platform, we've also been hard at work in ...

Case Studies, WS-I, etc...

Forum activity has picked up in the last few days and that reminded me that I haven't posted anything here in a while. So, here's a good chance to catch up. First, we have been meeting with several analysts lately and believe we have a good story on...

Notification Anyone

My current project is a notification subsystem for the next release of BIG-IP. Think of it like a SNMP trap but using web services as the notification method. In a typical management system the client managing the device has the burdon of determinin...