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F5_LB_Eng
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Dec 09, 2011

Need better solution for my issue

I need information that would tell me that changing our persistence method to SSL ID will cause all requests from a specific browser session to get 'stuck' to a specific web server even if multiple...
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Hamish
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Dec 11, 2011
SSL ID always used to work when I used it. Including through a proxy (Very important in the old days for so called super proxies etc). However it didn't used to work so well where the browser renegotiates the SSL ID... (Very bad for some old versions of IE that used to renegotiate every minute or so).

 

 

I take it that you're passing the SSL though to the back end instead of offloading? (If you were offloading, you might be able to ensure the new sessionid persisted to the same place as the old by intercepting the SSL events).

 

 

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