InfoPath People Picker Issue with SharePoint 2010 when using F5 BigIP

We had an issue recently after implementing a F5 BigIP load balancer/SSL accelerator, the people picker in all InfoPath forms published to SharePoint stopped working. After some investigation, it was found that the claim provider web service was expecting InfoPath to use a different URL than it was actually using. InfoPath was requesting from spclaimproviderwebservice.https.svc, however since the SSL acceleration was done externally SharePoint was expecting InfoPath to use spclaimproviderwebservice.svc. We resolved the problem by creating the following irule on the F5 BigIP:


when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [[string tolower] [HTTP::path]] contains "spclaimproviderwebservice.https.svc"} {
HTTP::path [string map {.https ""} [HTTP::path]]
}
}