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Stéphane_PICARD
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Dec 03, 2015

When does F5 use Set-Cookie for persistence cookie ?

Hi all, very sorry if this questions was raised a lot of times. I swear i looked for an answer on f5.com for more than 1 hour but didn't find any clear answer.   Here is the question : when using ...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Dec 03, 2015

The Insert method appends an additional Set-Cookie header to the original HTTP response from your backend server.

 

When does F5 append the header, adding the persistency cookie? Only if the last HTTP request from client did not present the cookie in its header. This method certainly does not instruct F5 to repeatedly overwrite the value of the cookie after each request as you are expecting.

 

More reading here: (SOL is for v10, but the methods still function the same in v11) https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm_configuration_guide_10_0_0/ltm_persist_profiles.html1184910