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Yozzer's avatar
Yozzer
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Feb 25, 2015

Username and session tracking in an irule

Hi

 

I want to track a user when they first login by capturing their username and the session cookie they are given in an irule. This is easy to achieve but i wanted to know how i can do this if the session cookie changes constantly. Any ideas of how i could do this would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

application delivery
devops
iRules

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  • Brad_Parker's avatar
    Brad_Parker
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    Feb 25, 2015

    If the application has a unique login page that gets posted to for login you could grab the username, possibly form the query parameter if that's where it is passed, and the session cookie value and stuff them into a different cookie value that you create with your iRule that should persist for the users entire session. Something like this may work.

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[HTTP::uri] starts_with "/loginpage.aspx" && [HTTP::method] equals "POST"}{
        HTTP::cookie insert BigIPsession "[URI::query [HTTP::uri] username]/[HTTP::cookie value aspsessionid]"
    }
}