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dlogsdonmd
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Jul 18, 2018

SharePoint 2010 HTTP -> HTTPS

Hello, we have a vendor maintain one of our sharepoint sites. He's reporting that since we implemented SSL offloading at the F5, that:

 

" the main issue seems to be really that SharePoint is rendering internal links as http:// because that is how it is configured; however this causes issues since the user's session is in https://. Having said all that, the main member-side pages seem to be functioning fine. This issue is related to back-end list views and settings pages, which mainly affects the R&P Admins (the business line). "

 

He says the solution is to pass the SSL traffic to the servers, which we don't like to do. We have a pretty basic VIP configured for this site. We have an HTTP vip set to redirect traffic to HTTPS, so no pool, etc. configured on that object. The HTTPS object VIP object is also basic, no iRules, the pool members are port 80 and the pool is configured as "Least Connetions (node)".

 

Anyone have any experience with this and have any suggestions? Need more information?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Diane

 

application delivery
LTM

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  • charkitp_224808's avatar
    charkitp_224808
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    Feb 28, 2019

    Hi if this issue has been resolved by using Rewriting Redirect on HTTP profile? I am having a similar issue. Thanks CK

     

  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
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    Feb 28, 2019

    Hi,

     

    The problem with this question is :

     

    • Sharepoint technology already provide the solution for this issue : Alternate access mapping
    • if you configure it on Sharepoint, there is no server performance impact, no rewriting issues, the solution is supported by microsoft
    • if you do it with F5, you have to search in every response page for internal url (encoded in multiple formats, some colons are Unicode encoded), 90% bigip performance impact (i have a customer where a bigip felt down to 10% of concurrent requests per second capabilities by enabling response data)