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Subject: Re: Adding stickysession cookie on the proxy
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 21:32:09 +0100
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On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:

>
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Jani M. wrote:
>
>> Ruediger Pluem wrote:
>>> You can already do this with mod_headers. Just add
>>> Header add Set-Cookie "MYCOOKIE=SOMEVALUE.% 
>>> {BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE}e; path=/;" env=BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED
>>
>> Ah. Don't know why, but for some reason I didn't even think of  
>> using mod_headers for this. Now that you mentioned this, it seems  
>> quite obvious.
>>
>>> No need for additional code IMHO.
>>
>> I agree. "Native" support for this in proxy module directly would  
>> be nice, but not necessarily worth the effort.
>>
>
> The advantage of mod_headers is more flexibility that what could
> be "comfortably" added to the proxy module itself as well...
>
> This comes up maybe once or twice a year... I think I'll add
> it to my standard Apache 2.2 Proxy module presentation ;)

Or a how-to in the docs - in the proxy section.

Dw