How does cookie sticky work on the CSM?
A. The CSM does not require the servers to insert a specific cookie that can be mapped one-to-one with the servers.”Cookie sticky” in CSM terms means that you specify the name of the cookie that you want to consider for your sticky behavior, for instance, “user_id”. When a new user comes in (in our example, a “new user” is a user whose request doesn’t contain the cookie “user_id” or a user whose request contains the cookie “user_id” with a value without a corresponding active entry in the sticky table), its connection will be load balanced to a server simply relying on the load balancing algorithm that was configured for that serverfarm.Once the user has the cookie (user_id) and once LB decision has been made, then all subsequent connections from a client with that specific cookie value will go to the same server (as long as the specific sticky timer has not expired).It’s not a one-to-one mapping between cookie values and servers, it’s a “learn the cookie value the first time (when you
