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Kevin_Stewart
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May 21, 2014

Across the Internet you have no control over what devices a user request will flow through. Anything from NATting firewalls to proxies, a user's source address can change from one HTTP request to another. Destination address affinity isn't really applicable here. That's mainly used for things like firewall or web cache load balancing.

 

If the client agent supports HTTP cookies, then that is the most reliable persistence method.