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Mengzi_60383
Nimbostratus
Mar 04, 2011GTM with HTTP cookie?
Hi Guys,
I am completely new to F5 and needed some help... we have a web site hosted in two data centers and use GTM to take user to the closest one, what I am wondering is that possible to ...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
Mar 04, 2011When a client makes a via GTM, it starts with the DNS request to resolve a hostname to an IP address. There hasn't been an HTTP request at that point, so you wouldn't be able to consider HTTP cookies yet.
Once the client makes an HTTP request, you could track which datacenter they'd been resolved to using a cookie. If they flip datacenters mid-session, you could redirect them to a hostname that points just to one datacenter. You could also consider using an iSession tunnel to route them directly to the other datacenter.
Aaron
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