Persistence Cookie iRule not working as desired

nitass- this is what I see in curl

 

curl -lv http://172.19.11.73/api/v1/sendpinajax

 

* About to connect() to 172.19.11.73:80

 

* Connected to 172.19.11.73 (172.19.11.73) port 80

 

> GET /api/v1/sendpinajax HTTP/1.1

 

User-Agent: curl/7.10.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ipv6 zlib/1.1.4

 

Host: 172.19.11.73

 

Pragma: no-cache

 

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*

 

 

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

 

< Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:26:22 GMT

 

< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)

 

< Content-Length: 293

 

< Connection: close

 

< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

< Set-Cookie: MM-MEP-SENDPIN=218764204.20480.0000; path=/

 

 

 

404 Not Found

 

 

Not Found

 

The requested URL /api/v1/sendpinajax was not found on this server.

 

 

 

Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at 172.19.11.73 Port 80

 

 

* Closing connection 0

 

[aladkani@mmusbox-lx01 aladkani]$ curl -lv http://172.19.11.73/api/v1/processrefund

 

* About to connect() to 172.19.11.73:80

 

* Connected to 172.19.11.73 (172.19.11.73) port 80

 

> GET /api/v1/processrefund HTTP/1.1

 

User-Agent: curl/7.10.6 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ipv6 zlib/1.1.4

 

Host: 172.19.11.73

 

Pragma: no-cache

 

Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*

 

 

< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

 

< Content-length: 22

 

< Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:26:53 GMT

 

* Connection 0 left intact

 

* Closing connection 0

 

 

This looks as desired because curl unlike browser is not keeping the session open. The problem is with browsers.

 

 

Now I was following this article to circumvent this issue,

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/9000/800/sol9815.html

 

 

So according to this KB if I use default cookie name BIgipServer, this confusion with cookie persistence while pool jumping will not happen.

 

 

BUT, i have one url for which I am doing persist none. I want to know what happens to that in this case. In short user goes to url /blah1 which has persistence gets cookie BigipServerBLAH1, and then if it goes to url /blah2, which has persist none in the profile, what happens there. I do not think persist none will make the browser drop cookies.

 

 

Also I cannot try what Kurt said, doing persist none and then cookie insert because what if the user goes back to the pool where default cookie is used. I am not sure if I am explaining my case properly here.

 

 

I really appreciate the time you guys have put in replying.