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Zaklina_377109
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Nov 16, 2018

Filtering based on client certificate

Hello,   I want to make F5 filter user requests based on client certificate so that requests that do not have certificate are not passed to web server. Also, F5 shouldn't authenticate the user. Ho...
application delivery
ASM Advanced WAF
BIG-IP
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Hello,

 

take a look on client ssl profile. You have whole section there called "Client Authentication" where you define parameters used to determine if client with certain certificate should be allowed or not.

 

More details here: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14783

 

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Nov 19, 2018

Zaklina,

 

if you need bigip to drop the request you need to actually have that proxy ssl function disabled (this is default). That way your f5 tries to negotiate ssl handshake and if the client does not provide proper certificate it will fail.