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ffive_154017
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratussession timeout handling
We have a filer which does application level redirection based on httpSession object. We have recently added bigIp to the stack. Prior to load balancer configuration we were getting the httpSession o...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIs the "httpSession" object you're referring to a cookie set by the application? In a pure protocol sense, HTTP is stateless, so any "session" between a client and server would have to be maintained by some persistent object that the client sent back in each request (a cookie, a URI pattern, a header, etc.). In that case, what happens when the application session times out, that doesn't happen when it's behind the load balancer? Are you using any iRules? Have any specific or unusual configuration on the load balancer virtual server?
