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kridsana_52318
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Nov 30, 2015

How to use old Cookie with new User-agent

Hi everybody

 

I've requirement about customer application which it's activate new user-agent (JAVA UI) from browser .

 

We have one Virtual server with cookie persistence. And we found F5 is LB to different pool member because after user open new UA (normal activity) because it's new User-agent and F5 haven't cookie of that JAVA User-agent.

 

Question is, Is there a way to make F5 recognize old cookie that user have in browser when user open new JAVA UI (new user-agent)?

 

Thank you very much

 

ps. Right now we change persistence method to Source persist but it's seem have a problem. So if possible we would like to change it back to cookie. (if possible)

 

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1 Reply

  • PeteWhite's avatar
    PeteWhite
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    Dec 01, 2015

    Presumably the new browser doesn't share the same cookie as the original session and therefore cookie persistence doesn't work. You could try to find a way to inject this cookie into the new browser session, share the cookie repository or use permanent cookies to see if that helps. You can use universal persistence if there is something that links the two sessions such as a session ID. If this is just a completely new session accessed via another browser then i don't see that there is much you can do except for use source address persistence.