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Sessions and Cookies and Persistence, oh my!

At some point (you hope!) it becomes necessary to implement load-balancing for your applications. So you went out and got one, either from a hardware vendor or maybe downloaded a solution, and put it...
Published Jun 04, 2008
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application delivery
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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iRules
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@Sujal,

 

 

There are a few reasons why persistence might not work as expected - there's a good discussion of some of them in this thread: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/cookie-persistence-failure-due-to-client-behavior.

 

 

Some basic things to check on would be the timeout value in the profile and to determine whether you're using session or cookie persistence, as they behave differently.

 

 

Lori

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