Dynamic switching of requesting between pools

 

Thanks a lot Aaron !!

 

 

I was somehow unaware about the fact you stated - that, headers inserted into a Response Headers collection are not accessible in the Request Headers collection, as this is dictated by the Browser...

 

 

With regards to an earlier approach (my earlier post) as mentioned in this link,

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=31&postid=25259&view=topic

 

(Also please check these related posts which I had put put earlier ...

 

 

http://forums.asp.net/t/1277783.aspx

 

http://forums.asp.net/t/1275980.aspx

 

 

)

 

 

only if my assumption (in the first link above ) turns out to be true - i.e., drained out node still services the postback requests, I would have no need to consider the current approach of switching between pools based on the custom header !!

 

 

By the way, keeping inline with the current approach, I am considering using cookies instead to HTTP Header to achieve the same effect, but a problem would arise if users don't accept the cookies...

 

 

So still working on pro & cons of other alternatives like hidden variables, etc & whether thses can be retrieved or accessed at the Load Balancer level ...

 

 

Sandesh.