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hitesh_patel_37's avatar
hitesh_patel_37
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Aug 17, 2011

session cookie

 

 

I am not sure if the F5 8900 LTMs would support the below. Hopefully someone on the board may be able to help me out:

 

We would like to create a unique session cookie for a user session.

 

 

So when a user hits the F5 we want a cookie to be set on the browser to last the lifetime of the users browser session.

 

This is NOT the cookie to be used for load balancing, this is just a cookie to tie all the users interactions together.

 

 

Please can someone guide me here, perhaps a link/reference to some documentation?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

 

Rgds,

 

 

HP.

 

 

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3 Replies

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 17, 2011
    Hi Hitesh,

     

     

    Here is a thread where we discussed this:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/50/aft/56401/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx

     

     

    You could insert the cookie with HTTP::cookie insert in the HTTP_RESPONSE event if it didn't exist already in the request:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.http__cookie.ashx

     

     

    Aaron
  • sprashanthac_81's avatar
    sprashanthac_81
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    Mar 22, 2013
    What is the default time out for this Session cookie ? that is required for a troubleshoot sol.
  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Mar 22, 2013
    That would depend on how you created the cookie. If you don't set the Expires flag in the Set-Cookie header then the cookie will be session-based and only last for the lifetime of the browser window.