iRule redirection for VIP on 443

Thanks. That makes sense. I was trying to avoid even having BIG-IP even bothering looking at the packet. I just wanted the traffic to hit the VS and respond by telling them to go to the URL in the iRule. If that is not possible, then that makes sense.

On the NetScaler, there were times we had to bind an 'always up' service/node to a VS in order for a feature to function like a responder or rewrite. Is that unnecessary on the F5-side?