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VDaemon
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Oct 31, 2021

Limiting number of "Users" (Not connections) to the Application Virtual Server

We have a Virtual Server on F5 that is for a mobile app. On a specific day for some time when the simultaneous users exceed a particular number, the application starts to crash because of the applica...
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Erwin_de_Brouwer
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Nov 01, 2021

Hi VDaemon,

How about setting an additional cookie while incrementing the counter. Maybe you could leverage the "HTTP::cookie expires" attribute to set some sort of inactivity timer in the users session. Like, when the users is not sending anymore HTTP requests, the additional cookie doesn't get updated with the expiration time anymore.

Not sure totally sure yet on how to acomplish this technically (as I'm quite new to F5/Devcentral), but I would like to help 😀