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Luca_55898
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Aug 26, 2012

Performance(HTTP) Profile - cookie persistence

Hi,   I have a customer who is doing their own SSL encryption on their servers. So on our LTM I enabled a Performance(HTTP) VS and also enabled cookie persistence.   When I checked my broswer ...
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Nate_7016
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Aug 29, 2012
In order to use cookie persistence the LTM has to decrypt the data so it would need the SSL key and cert. It could decrypt and re-encrypt and pass to the server if needed.

 

 

The reason for this is that with SSL the data (HTML) is encrypted so it's not possible for the LTM to insert a cookie.