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Narendra_26827
May 08, 2012Nimbostratus
Cookie Persistence Issue
Thanks.
- Joel_MosesNimbostratusWhat browser are you using? Under normal conditions, tabs should share cookies, but it depends on the browser and on how the tabs are being launched from certain browsers.
- Narendra_26827NimbostratusThanks for reply, I am using google chrome on ubuntu linux. But as i check with F5 support they told that for every tab in a browser it acts as a new session for bigip and it will have new cookie value generated.
- Joel_MosesNimbostratusThat's interesting; if you are launching the tabs like normal in Chrome, then both session and persistent cookies should be shared across the tabs. Nearly every browser works this way -- it pretty much has to since popup and new window launches are pervasively used on the web.
- Narendra_26827NimbostratusWe have seen this issue in firefox too. So i don't see it as a browser specific issue.
- hooleylistCirrostratusI am almost certain that Firefox (and all other major browsers) shares cookies across tabs. In fact there are a number of posts on other forums asking for how to configure Firefox to not share them:
- Joel_MosesNimbostratusAaron: Think this might be due to a Keepalive persistence failure (sol7964)? Sounds like it might be.
- Narendra_26827NimbostratusOne more thing to add here is that with every tab we have separate wc domain like
- Joel_MosesNimbostratusAh! That makes it clearer.
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