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Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate · Microsoft
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The reason we use HTTP instead of HTTPS for the Azure VPN Gateway health probe is because of how Microsoft designed the probe endpoint: The health probe is a lightweight diagnostic endpoint, not a user-facing service. It’s exposed on port 8081 and only responds to HTTP requests. It doesn’t support HTTPS because the probe isn’t meant for secure data transfer — it simply returns a status code (like 200 OK) to confirm the gateway is alive. Using HTTPS would imply certificate validation and encryption, which isn’t necessary for this internal monitoring function.
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The reason we use HTTP instead of HTTPS for the Azure VPN Gateway health probe is because of how Microsoft designed the probe endpoint: The health probe is a lightweight diagnostic endpoint, not a user-facing service. It’s exposed on port 8081 and only responds to HTTP requests. It doesn’t support HTTPS because the probe isn’t meant for secure data transfer — it simply returns a status code (like 200 OK) to confirm the gateway is alive. Using HTTPS would imply certificate validation and encryption, which isn’t necessary for this internal monitoring function.