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Anatolyint
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Mar 03, 2021

Encryped Coockie Persistence session loss

Hello,   We have VS setup with two pools and round robin load balancing with cookie Persistence, We decided to encrypt the cookie to not expose it, but after encrypting it users started to exp...
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Anatolyint
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Hello,

 

My system does not support traffic decryption as it says its only applies for BIG-IP 12.x and later, mine is lower.

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Simon_Blakely
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Mar 07, 2021

Then you need to use an irule to log the persistence cookie value, and the load-balancing choice.

It could be that something is corrupting the cookie so that decryption fails, and a new load-balancing decision is made.

 

If you use the browser developer tools and collect a HAR file, do you see the persistence cookie change?