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Joe_Curl_105786
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May 17, 2010

iRule - Insert Session Cookie

We are in need of keeping track of when someone logs into the application for the first time. We are wanting to do a session cookie insert in the iRule so we can track that. We need to do this in th...
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hoolio
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May 17, 2010
Hi Joe,

 

 

If the application is setting a jsessionid cookie, couldn't you use that to identify which server the client needs to be persisted to? There is an existing Codeshare example which does this:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/Weblogic_JSessionID_Persistence.html

 

 

You can create a session cookie by setting the cookie without an expire time. This is the default for the HTTP::cookie insert command:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__cookie

 

 

Aaron