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Gus_Thompson_11
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Oct 29, 2007

Cookie Persistence iRule help

Greetings,     I’m in desperate need of a solution for “Cookie Insert” persistence. I have worked with F5 support for over a month now, and still have not been able to resolve our issues. So, ...
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David_Homoney
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Oct 29, 2007
It appears that the backend servers handle the decryption of the data stream and therefore no cookie insert will work. The issue is that if you are just passing through SSL and not having the BIGIP handle decryption you will not be able to insert a cookie or use anything other than source addr because you can't insert anything into encrypted headers. The answer we need is whether or not the BIGIP is handling SSL decryption or not. At that point we can determine if the aforementioned rule can help or not.