Forum Discussion
Kushal_52907
Nov 24, 2008Nimbostratus
OneConnect solved my problems.
The main issue was that the client would establish a TCP session (SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK)and keep it open using HTTP KeepAlive. Then the client would start and stop multiple HTTP sessions within that TCP connection. Without OneConnect, after the first HTTP session was complete the client would strip the BigIP persist cookie and a new cookie would not be inserted by the BigIP upon subsequent session requests.
With OneConnect enabled, a 'set cookie' statement is insereted by the BigIP on every HTTP 200 OK response. This way, even if the application strips the cookie, it gets immediately re-inserted by the BigIP and persistence is maintained.
Thanks for the responses!