http sessionid vs jsessionid query in relation to persistence.

Hi - before i start - let me say we have only used the F5 for relatively simple load balancing with the inbuilt persistance profiles and have not done any iRules before. So, we have been asked to provide persistence for an HTTP VS where the clients pass through an intermediate (so megaproxy scenario) so we won't see the originating clients IP addresses. The application team asked us do this based on "sessionid" within the http header. I can see lots of examples of doing this for the field "jsessionid" but not for "sessionid". From the example information below provided by the apps team to highlight what they wanted I noted that the "sessionid" and the "jsessionid" where the same. When I suggested that we did this on the "jsessionid" their reply was:

 

Only the sessionId is populated by the application team in the header. The Cookie: jsessionid field is not populated explicitly from our code and we don’t have any control on it.

 

Am I missing something - as I can't see any examples of using the "sessionid" only the "jsessionid". Any help greatly appreciated!

 

Header

POST /interact/servlet/RestServlet HTTP/1.1

 

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 [en] (WinNT; I)

 

Accept: image/gif, /

 

Host: xx.xx.xx.xx:9080

 

Content-Type: application/json

 

sessionId: 0006|401|03/02/2017|10:38:18

 

Cookie: jsessionid=0006|401|03/02/2017|10:38:18

 

Content-Length: 1155