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Marvin_129795
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Oct 25, 2015

Cookie session persistence after restart browser or reboot client

Dear specialists,

 

Just a simple theoretical question.

 

I don't have a lot of experience with cookie persistence but I understand how it works. Like normally the session cookie is inserted by the Big IP and will be stored in the clients memory of the browser. After a restart of the browser the persistence normally does not work because the cookie will be gone.

 

Is there a way the remain the persistence after a restart of the browser or reboot of the client using cookie persistence?

 

3 Replies

  • In the cookie persistence profile you can optionally specify how long the cookie will last. This will preserve the cookie until that amount of time has expired.

     

  • Marvin's avatar
    Marvin
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    OK but will it last after a reboot of the client or restart of the browser? So if you dont specify the expiration time the cookie will be gone after a restart and if you do specify it will remain in the client until it expires?

     

  • Marvin's avatar
    Marvin
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    So I guess when using the expiration timer the cookie is saved in disk instead of memory when using session cookie persistence.