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Suraj_25258
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Apr 06, 2009

HTTP Redirection with Big-IP

Hi,   I have a scenario where a webpage, say www.mysite.com is accessed and it is routed to a set of web application servers via a Big-IP. A lookup is done in the web application server against a...
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JRahm
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Apr 09, 2009
For question 2, you'll need to insert something that the bigIP can recognize to track user sessions between different pairs. I've done this with cookies, inserting one at the web tier to be read and removed at the app tier, and vice versa, inserted at the app tier and read and removed at the webtier. Mostly I did this for troubleshooting, as there really wasn't a long-term need for me to track sessions at the web tier, only at the app tier.

 

 

Yes, big-ip can read/write/insert/sanitize/replace/remove etc with cookies. Check out the HTTP::cookie wiki page:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/HTTP__cookie.html Click here

 

 

HTH...Jason