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shadow82's avatar
shadow82
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Jan 04, 2024

Client certificate forward to backend server

Hi! I need to forward client SSL cert to backend server over F5 to authenticate it. Our F5 config consist of 1 External VServer that routes requests based on checking HTTP Host to chosen Internal V...
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zamroni777
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Jan 05, 2024

for f5-client side ssl config, you set it into virtual server's client (side) ssl profile.

to pass client certificate to server, you might try to insert client certificate data as custom http header when f5 forwards http request to server.
there are some similar example in this doc:
https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/SSL__cert.html