Session destruction relative to loadbalancer setting?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Jan 3 19:45:56 EST 2013


On 1/3/13 6:55 PM, "Russell Beall" <beall at usc.edu> wrote:

>Has anyone had trouble with SP sessions being destroyed based on what
>type of loadbalancer persistence is used?

Yes, but when it was investigated here, the cause was that for whatever
reason the load balancer cookie didn't take, and it was flipping servers.
That's not the cause here.

>I'm trying to help a department where their SP works fine when Source IP
>persistence is used, but when they turn on "Active Cookie" persistence,
>the SP calls for the destruction of the session and then tries to
>generate a new one (resulting in looping).

When shibd.log is confusing like that, that's when something's in
native.log that completes the picture. The reason it's removing the
session should be there.

-- Scott




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