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TJ_Vreugdenhil's avatar
TJ_Vreugdenhil
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Aug 09, 2016

ASM TSxxxx Max Cookie Size

We have an environment where the WCS servers have a cookie size crossing threshold of 8Kb per request. The TSxxxx F5 ASM cookies take more then half of this threshold. I understand there is a way to ...
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Chris_Grant
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Aug 11, 2016

You really can't. The ASM cookies include a hash of the other cookies in the request, and as such their size is directly influenced by the size of all the other cookies. None of the data included in the ASM cookies is fluff or padding, so there is no way to reduce the size without losing some kind of functionality. As a result, we don't let you do that.