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AaronMLong_1021
Feb 12, 2014Cirrus
Maximum length/legal characters for JSESSIONID cookie
My setup is using JSESSIONID persistence to load-balance a weblogic application, and the JSESSIONID values they send to the client are quite convoluted:
JSESSIONID=4k97S6kYZcX0LpD5tLLSC54yy9y2fzrtz...
Kevin_Stewart
Feb 12, 2014Employee
While there is no prescribed standard limit for cookie sizes, RFC 6265 recommends that a "user-agent" should at least be able to handle 4096 bytes per cookie. Hopefully you don't have cookies that big, but nonetheless it's nothing that the BIG-IP persistence table can't handle. I'd also add that the example JSESSIONID value that you've provided is not uncommonly long.
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