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Soft_JL
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Nov 03, 2020

Change redirect from http to https

Hi guys,   Got an issue where the end webserver sends a redirect for a certain address.   When going direct with https to the server it sends back a redirect of https://whatever.com but when ...
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Simon_Blakely
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Nov 04, 2020

Some applications servers can be configured to respond with https URLs on http ports, or to ignore http without redirecting.

Some application servers can respond to a header

X-Forwarded-Proto: HTTPS

 

The question is - does the application server respond to any request on an HTTP port with a redirect to https?

If so, then you have to use one of the methods above (if you can), or you have to set up your pool to use https (and have a server-ssl profile).