During one of my Citrix ADC projects, I came across a strange problem. I had to give external users access to a certain IoT device. These very devices don’t support static addressing (!) and are well known for being exploitable, however, there is no really secure alternative available on the market. Because of this, my customer wanted to restrict these crappy devices to a certain range of...
last update: May 6th 2021 I recently moved my blog to a new host, so several objects don’t exist anymore. Unfortunately, this will lead to plenty of 404 not found, instead of giving users access to the website as a whole. So I decided to replace all not found with redirects to a certain page, it might be any kind of sorry page or the default page. It’s up to you. The problem Changing...
There are several guidelines out there how to do this. I want to dig a bit deeper. Why do I want to use NetScaler policies to rewrite and pimp this webpage? There are two reasons: A NetScaler is there and it is possible. And it will survive all (or near to all, there will never be a guarantee!) upcoming NetScaler updates! So where do we start? This is a German version of a NetScaler Gateway...
Or: Admin partitions Update, March 2021: It does not work with current versions This is a workaround for a well-known problem in NetScaler: Binding NetScaler Gateways to content switching vServers. This solution does not follow Citrix best practices. Avoid using it, if you can! My solution will work with NetScaler 11.1 upward. The Problem Up to 11.0, it was impossible to bind a NetSaler Gateway...
test websites and more
Fiddler, a debugging proxy server. Record requests, tamper requests, replay requests
My personal Citrix ADC / NetScaler test environment
I came across following issue, doing a Citrix ADC / NetScaler project: My customer wanted to use Azure MFA for internal users and LDAP/RADIUS for external users like contractors and parters. That’s a typical use-case for n-factor authentication. So how do we solve problems like that? The solution A Solution based on group membership The difference between internal and external users is...
This is the fifth part of this blog. Part Part 1 2 3 4 5 Form-fields are a major gate to send malicious data to a web-server. It’s obvious, a website programmer does not want to do input validation twice, on the user and on the server-side. What could happen? If everything is tested on the client-side, data arriving on the server-side has to be good. Even worse: If an input field does not...
last update: December 10th 2020 I recently came across a problem, that had been hard to resolve. Active/passive load-balancing typically is easy to do: You create a load-balancing vServer for the active service, and another one, intended to be passive, for desaster recovery. Then you set the disaster recovery vServer as a protection vServer for the active vServer. It will automatically switch to...
Last change: December 21st 2021. Thanks to Dirk Bautz! This is the 2nd part to my article “Which ciphers to use on a Citrix ADC /NetScaler?” This one had been about TLS versions up to 1.2 only. Moving from TLS 1.2 to TLS 1.3 on an existing Citrix ADC ( NetScaler) may be a big step with some obstacles to overcome. It needs some investigation. Why TLS 1.3? Simple: TLS 1.3 is faster, as...
Thinking back to the end of my UNIX days, there had been something called SSH. It had been a replacement for telnet and had a nice feature called SSH keys. SSH keys were a safe and easy way to replace those tiresome passwords. I loved them! Almost at the same time, Windows came up and I lost contact with UNIX. I always hoped, IT will switch over to Linux, but it never happened and my UNIX...