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AjayPra_161698
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Feb 03, 2015

Search traffic

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Client connects to web page on server 1.1.1.1 using https for example https://www.abc.com

 

on server page there is search box on html page and client tries to search . The search traffic will be http or https ?? I think it is http as https works only with web browsers ?

 

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  • What is the client ? A non-browser client can also support https which would be the default connection method if the client connected with https on the original connection.

     

    You have not clarified if you have the LTM in between the client and the server ?

     

  • Those are two completely different connections from the sound of things. A web service call is not dependent on the method on the front end. As the "frontend server" is acting as a client to the "backend server", it would be dictated by the config of the two server (or VIPs, whatever is terminating the call from the front end server). The frontend server is initiating the call (HTTP or HTTPS), but the back end server might redirect etc.

     

    Long and short, how the client and server are configured (in this case the client is the front end server) will dictate the connection.