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Re: cookie persistence

To: leisheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: cookie persistence
Cc: Meijuan Feng <meijuan_feng@xxxxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:26:52 -0700
Not current version, as far as I know.

At 06:36 PM 10/4/00 -0500, leisheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>As for the cookie persistence. Can LVS look into the
>packet header other than IP address as well as 
>packet payload?
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Wayne wrote:
>
>> 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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