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NimbostratusiRule to control a GUI setting
Is it possible to use an iRule to change the settings that are made in the GUI?
I have a SharePoint installation that requires Access Policy ›› Access Profiles : Access Profiles List ›› APM_Kerberos ›› Cookie Options ›› Persitent set. With this I can open, edit and save documents in Word and see it all happens in a single session. Without it I get errors plus I can see Word starting its own sessions.
Now I also have an application that uses SharePoint but it doesn't work with the option set. Is it possible to control the setting in an iRule please?
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I think you could use 'persist none' to disable persistence for a specific connection. See:
Andy_from_SandyI believe those persistent options are for ensuring the connection goes to a certain pool member but thank you for looking.
I tried using a cookie persistent profile but that doesn't work as Word then creates a new session when it tries to open a document.
Stanislas_Piro2Cumulonimbus
Hi,
did you look at this irule managing office clients authentication to sharepoint application?
https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/apm-sharepoint-authentication
- Andy_from_Sandy
@ Niels van Sluis - I went back and looked at the iRule I was working from and you are correct on how I can get my config working.
@ Stanislas - I have been working from your thread and I did ask for some extra commentary on what you were doing and also in the access policy also. As I am not doing form based authentication I had removed that code but now I see I need some of it to maintain the session persistence.
I should of done more playing and logging and less asking first! Cheers.
- Stanislas_Piro2
Cookie are shared between applications on the client side if :
- applications read cookies in the browser's directory
- Applications trust cookies of browser
- cookie is written on the disk (session cookies are not stored on disk, cookies with expiration date are, a persistent cookie is a cookie with expiration date)
to allow IE to share cookies with Office, the sharepoint site must be defined as Trusted site or Intranet site.
Microsoft products trust other MS products cookies. non MS products does not trust MS products cookies.
My irule manages persistent cookies differently than APM persistent cookie, as the persistent cookie has a valid period of 2 minutes, and deny access to same session with a browser if the previous browser window was closed (delete of session cookie, but persistent cookie sent)
