bsutter_12449
Sep 02, 2008Nimbostratus
Keeping Session state from https nodes to http nodes
Background:
Our web application uses SSL to encrypt the login page of our website from here the user is redirected to an http version of the website so they essentially go from an https virtual server(https_vs) to an http virtual server(http_vs). We are doing SSL encryption at the webserver level(IIS). This solution has worked til now. We are looking to add more than one node to the load balanced pools. Specifically 3 to https_VS and 3 to http_VS. Currently in staging when we try to send packets from the https_VS to the http_VS the session only stays alive if the node IP is the same. What would be the best way to force the node to be the same IP when the site redirects from https_vs to http_vs.
Here is the scenario I would like to configure
-Round Robin HTTPS_VS nodes and have the nodeIP stick when the user redirects to the HTTP_VS node thus ensuring session state.
-Due to our current setup of the website App we are looking to keep SSL encryption at the webserver level and not at the F5.
Any thoughts and suggestions is greatly appreciated.