NimbostratusBIG IP accepts request from http or https from the user. However when BIGIP tries to connect to Webserver, it just use http (regardless what the user use when accessing the F5 (http/http) Now, the Web application wants to know from which protocol (http or https) the request is going. how to acheive this in F5 ?
Can we use injector kind of header -- they see the header
CirrostratusI'm not exactly sure what resolution you are looking for. Is it a) the BIG-IP should connect to the content server using the same schema (HTTP or HTTPS) the client used, or b) the BIG-IP should connect to the webserver via HTTP, but signal the schema the client used when connecting?
If what you need is 'a', then you need to place a server-ssl profile on the VS handling your HTTPS traffic, to allow the BIG-IP to re-encrypt the traffic. You will also need to configure your HTTPS VS with a pool that contains member instances that are listening for HTTPS traffic.
If what you need is 'b', then you will need to use a simple iRule to look at the service the client was trying to reach ( TCP::local_port would do this), and discriminate between HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Once you know the service, you can insert a header into the client request using HTTP::header, with a value of HTTP or HTTPS as determined by the local port.
Hope that helps.