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EdH_135054
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSSL and sticky sessions (offload at app server)
We are for better or worse offloading SSL based transactions at the application server. The F5 is responsible for port translation 443 to 9002 and needs to establish a sticky session. However we ar...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIf you're decrypting and re-encrypting, and this is HTTP traffic, the EASIEST and most stable mechanism is cookie persistence. The persistence cookie is inserted into the egress flow and returned on each request. To use the JSESSIONID, you must create an iRule that parses this value from the requests and/or responses and maintains a session table entry for the connection.
If you cannot decrypt and re-encrypt the SSL, your persistence option becomes limited to source address.
