EBS Load Balancer Query

  • From: Priyank Jain <mail2priyank@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ora-apps-dba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:38:12 +0000

Hi All,

I have a very peculiar requirement for setting up a Load balancer with EBS
R12.

The requirement is that the client connecitons come in as HTTPS and the
encrypted traffic gets offloaded to HTTP in a DMZ zone by some network
device before it hits the Load balancer.
So the Load balancer gets HTTP traffic and forwards it on to the
Application servers in unencrypted format.
So far so good.
However, the requirement is that the loopback address should not be HTTPS
as the traffic has to then go back to the top of the stack and come back
again, which I believe is not supported by the hardware we are using.

So, the question is:
Is it possible to configure EBS so that the Client Web entry port is HTTPS,
that is offloaded to HTTP before it hits the Load balancer but the loopback
address for EBS is HTTP only?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Priyank.

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