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Stephen_Anderso
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May 08, 2012

iRule Causing SSL Problems

I created an iRule to handle mobile user detection and redirection. That part works great, but when it's active, SSL no longer works. The browser just waits for a response and never gets one. Not s...
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hooleylist
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May 08, 2012
I think it's cleaner and simpler to create two separate virtual servers for two different protocols. If you wanted to do this with one you could disable the HTTP filter and the iRule logic for non-HTTP requests using HTTP::disable and return. Here's a related example:

 

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HttpHttpsSingleVirtualServer.ashx

 

 

Also, if you want to redirect mobile user-agents who make HTTPS requests to the mobile site, you'd need to decrypt the HTTPS using a client SSL profile.

 

 

Aaron