Forum Discussion

Nimbostratus

Sep 08, 2006

Cookie persistence, but cookies disabled on browser

BIGIP 4.5.13

I have a pool which has Active HTTP Cookie-Insert persistence configured. It works as expected except when the client browser has cookies disabled. The goal is to maintain the persistence even with browsers configured this way.

There is a value in the http header from server to client which I am thinking could be used for persistence.

Any thoughts? I'm sure this has been encountered before.

Thank you.

1 Reply

Colin_Walker_12
Historic F5 Account
Oct 10, 2006
You can certainly set up your persistence based on the header value if the cookie isn't present. This would make use of a string something like
persist ( http_header "HeaderName" )

All you'd have to do is build some simple logic to confirm the cookie isn't present, then add this persistence record instead.

Colin