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Of course you could. But without a SSL decoder
at the front, the cookie persistent will no do you
any good. Say you have 5 web servers both
provide the shopping cart, running HTTP and
HTTPS. Browser the cart is using HTTP, and
check out using HTTPS. If you have cookie
persistent that always send your request to server
3 during the cookies life time. Once you click
on the check out, you were started using the
secure server. However, in the HTTPS, all the
cookies information are also encrypted, so the
load balancer may not send you to server 3 any
more. All the selection you had done for your
family Christmas shopping in last three hours
were gone! (actually, they still stay on server
3, but you could be send to server 4 now).
At 03:57 PM 10/4/00 -0700, Meijuan Feng wrote:
>So the idea of cookie persistence is to use cookie
>information stored by a client to direct the client
>connection to the appropriate server. But what if the
>current connection is already using cookies for
>something else, such as keeping shopping cart
>information? Can cookies be used for persistence and
>shopping cart information at the same time?
>
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