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Modena_
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Nov 08, 2017

APM - check for a session from within another session

Hi,   I have a scenario where after a user is authenticated by APM and has an active session, subsequently an out of band request will come in which is from a browser plugin but in practice its e...
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Niels_van_Sluis's avatar
Niels_van_Sluis
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Nov 10, 2017

Instead of setting an APM session variable, I think the table function is more suitable. Assuming the cookie that is set by the application is unique, you could put that in the table together with the sessionid. When the outband connection comes in, you could simply lookup the unique cookie in the table and link it to the related authenticated session. For more info on the table function see: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/the101-irules-101-datagroups-amp-tables