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Aug 09, 2010

Rewrite Existing Client Cookie

Let's say a client has a cookie called "sample" with a value of "1" Can an F5 replace the value of the cookie on the client machine? I know it can insert a new cookie with the same name and different ...
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Posted By naladar on 08/09/2010 11:42 AM

I think something like this would allow you to change the cookie value. Sorry, I don't have a good way to test this out at the moment. 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 Check if the cookie exists in request
if { [HTTP::cookie exists "cookie-name"] } {

 Change cookie's value
HTTP::cookie [value]  [string]
   }
}

Since this is in the HTTP_REQUEST event, this would just be replacing it from the F5 to the pool member, right?