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paul_73820
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Jun 03, 2013

Anyone out there placed WebObjects behind LTM?

Hi There,

 

I am working to move some webobjects servers from behind Apache to be managed by a pair of LTM's.

 

So far its been interesting and it looks like it uses some kind of an adapter, in the case of mod_webobjects this is means it turns the apache server into a protocol converter.

 

It looks like there is an option to use the default http adapter which is then run as part of the webojects instance but i am not sure what its performance is like.

 

I cant find much about webobjects and F5 so here I am hoping someone out here has done this or has pointers.

 

I suspect people have mostly given up on webobjects in disgust:)

 

The config I have at this point is very standard, TCP VS with a pool of WO servers on individual ports. Using cookie persistence and a snat pool.

 

Nothing special at all right now.

 

Any pointers or experiences welcome.

 

 

Paul

 

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    paul_73820
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    Jun 25, 2013
    Surprised to not see a single response...

     

    In the end it was very simple, however due to the nature of the client using this web objects setup i couldn't use cookie for persistance and ended up writing an irule to do it.

     

    The main reason for the irule was that the session id wasn't in a header it was in the body of the response.

     

     

    So nothing very tricky at all, and the performance of the default http adaptor has been fine.

     

     

    Paul