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Wynand_van_Nisp
Nimbostratus
Jun 02, 2008Session persistance in browser tabs
Hi,
We have a client that has a Java banking app. The issue is as soon as you open multiple tabs the sessions get mixed up since the application uses cookies to maintain its session sta...
spark_86682
Jun 27, 2008Historic F5 Account
hoolio is correct; the browser will only keep one cookie for the site and present it no matter which tab is used to access the site.
There is one clever way around this, and that is to make the browser think that the two tabs have different sites. You could use iRules to add a fake random prefix to the hostname and strip it off before it sends the requests to the real servers. That would require a wildcard cert if you're doing SSL. Of course, it may not be OK for your users to see, for example, a hostname of h3852934510182.yoursite.com in their browser, in which case this wouldn't work.
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