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Chris_Miller
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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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Aug 09, 2010
That is correct. To modify the cookie coming from the server going to the client you would have to use when HTTP_RESPONSE. Here is a good URL for a Wiki article talking about encrypting cookies, in which they describe how to change the values of the cookies.