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Tuomas_Jormola_
Apr 18, 2008Nimbostratus
Hi,
Posted By kevin.stewart on 04/17/2008 6:44 AM
I may be missing something in your explanation, but is there a specific reason that you cannot use the BigIP builtin cookie persistence mechanism? With this the BigIP sends its own cookie to the client that indicates the LB node.
Kevin
We want to minimize the number of cookies sent, and since a session id is already made available by the application, and the BIG-IP is supposed to be able to utilizie it, why not use that.
Also in the future, the requirements might change so that we can't use cookies at all,
in which case the application server is configured to deliver the session id in the request uri.
In order to support this, we would have to write a universal persistence profile anyway.