Best Way to do Cookie Persistence here?

You could seperate the traffic to each pool of servers based on the content type or by the request in the URI:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/content1" } {

 

pool pool.for.content1

 

}

 

elseif {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/content2" } {

 

pool pool.for.content2

 

}

 

elseif {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/content3" } {

 

pool pool.for.content3

 

}

 

elseif {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/content4" } {

 

pool pool.for.content4

 

}

 

elseif {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/content5" } {

 

pool pool.for.content5

 

}

 

Choose a Default Action none of the above content is matched

 

Most often a redirect to a different site, or a redirect to a url that

 

would be matched by this iRule

 

else {

 

HTTP::redirect http://[getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1]/content1

 

}

 

}

 

 

Once seperated into each Pool, I'm not sure that you would need to go any further than a custom F5 Cookie Setting to do the rest. These are the possible settings:

 

 

Cookie Hash: Specifies that the server provides the cookie, which the system then maps consistently to a specific node.

 

HTTP Cookie Insert: Specifies that the system inserts server information, in the form of a cookie, into the header of the server response. This is the default setting.

 

HTTP Cookie Passive: Specifies that the server provides the cookie, formatted with the correct server information and timeout.

 

HTTP Cookie Rewrite: Specifies that the system intercepts the BIGipCookie header, sent from the server, and overwrites the name and value of that cookie.

 

 

Hope this helps.