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Luke_Lehman
Aug 13, 2010Employee
Cookie Insert Persistence Expiration / Timeout Setting
Forgive my ignorance with the topic, but I'm curious about the expiration / timeout settings for Cookie Insert Persistence.
In reading the F5 manuals the verbiage is as follows:
Expiration:
Sets the expiration time of the cookie. Applies to the HTTP Cookie Insert and HTTP Cookie Rewrite methods only. When using the default (checked), the system uses the expiration time specified in the session cookie.
My curiousity surrounds the "session cookie" part of the statement. Which session cookie is this referring to? An application session cookie or something else.
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Further down in the doc it says this:
The expiration date for the cookie is set based on the timeout configured on the BIG-IP system.
Not sure what that means either.
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Thanks.
- Chris_MillerAltostratusWhen I insert a cookie without specifying the expiration, it defaults to "when browser closes" so I assume a session cookie is a cookie that expires when you close the browser.
- Luke_LehmanEmployeePosted By Chris Miller on 08/13/2010 11:56 AM
- r_dynamo_79563NimbostratusAn F5 build for an application I'm working on has two Servers listening on port 9000 which require a cookie based load balancing method, which tranfers end-user sessions seamlessly without forceful logouts in case the Server handling the load balancing requests goes down.
- What_Lies_Bene1CirrostratusYes, you can terminate the SSL on the F5; you'll need the private key and certificate.
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