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Micah_Haarbrink
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Jan 10, 2014

SAML Cookie Persistence after browser/system restart and across service providers

I am fairly new to the F5 world and in the beginning of setting up our LTM's as SAML IdP's for a variety of services. Our first use-case is Jive, which we have working and all the attributes are pul...
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Michael_Koyfma1
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Jan 10, 2014

I assume you are actually talking about leveraging F5 Access Policy Manager(APM) for this. If so, the cookie behavior is controlled under SSO/Auth Domains tab of the access policy. Check the Persistent checkbox, and it will be persistent across browser restarts.

 

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    Micah_Haarbrink
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    Jan 10, 2014
    Hey Michael, Thanks for the response. I am indeed using APM. I did check that box and applied the policy but it didn't seem to have the intended effect. I was testing on a Mac (Safari and Chrome) and Windows 7 (Chrome and IE 9). I cleared cache and cookies on all browsers, logged in successfully, closed the browser and opened them again (definitely didn't clear cookies in that restart) and when I hit my web service it tosses me back to the F5 SSO logon again. Results were consistent across all browsers. I asked an F5 contact we have and he mentioned the same thing about the checkbox but thought maybe we were missing a step being in a newer version. We're running 11.4.1 HF2 but I haven't seen anything in the hotfix notes that might explain it. Should I expect to see a new cookie in the temp internet files directory to reflect the fact that I'm using a persistent cookie? I did keep an eye on that temp files directory and didn't see any cookie for "auth.mydomain.com" which I was kind of expecting as well.
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