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Chris_Miller
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Apr 22, 2010

iRule for Cookie Removal

I have 2 DCs fronted by a software GTM solution. When a user makes a request, GTM checks to see if they have a "DC" cookie. If they don't, it round robins the request. In the event that DC1 gets the r...
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hoolio
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Apr 22, 2010
If you want the client to delete a cookie you'd need to tell it to in the response. Using HTTP::cookie remove in HTTP_REQUEST is going to remove the cookie from the request that is proxied to the pool--it wouldn't have any effect on the client.

Can you try this? 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if {[HTTP::cookie "DC"] eq "1"}{
      set remove_cookies 1
   } else {
      set remove_cookies 0
   }
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {

   if {$remove_cookies}{
      HTTP::cookie remove "DC"
      HTTP::cookie remove "server"
   }
}

Aaron