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Damir_Kovacic_2
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Apr 14, 2011

APM HTTP sessionless support for web services

I have a question how to support web services authentication over APM. I have managed to get basic authentication using iRule to do ACCESS::session insertion of username and password. However, I found...
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Damir_Kovacic_2
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Apr 18, 2014

Well, it has been three years since the original question. At that time (I think that the actual version was 10.1), APM simply had to work with cookies. We ended up patching the client and the server side to support cookies and redirection. Then we hit the problem of performance (each login process took over 1000ms). So we simply dropped supporting web services over APM. I hope that was improved in the later versions.