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Nick_T_68319's avatar
Nick_T_68319
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Aug 31, 2010

Cookie encryption

I have a lot of web sites using the F5 default cookie for the primary persistence method. When using this cookie, it names the cookie BIGipServerPOOLNAME. This is cool, but now I have a request to e...
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Chris_Miller's avatar
Chris_Miller
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Sep 01, 2010
Here's a good wiki on encrypting cookies

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/EncryptingCookies.html

 

 

I'm not sure what kind of wildcard capabilities exist within the actual HTTP profile. Obviously with an iRule, you could use something like "if cookie starts_with BIGip, encrypt, yada yada."