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  1. mod_cluster
  2. MODCLUSTER-609

Allow to configure session cookie/parameter name

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    • Enhancement
    • Resolution: Won't Do
    • Minor
    • None
    • 1.2.13.Final, 1.3.7.Final
    • Core + SPIs

    Description

      Allow to specify session cookie / parameter name.

      Now it is not possible to specify at balancer a session cookie / parameter name different from what is used at server.

      This would be useful for implementing "Sticky Session duration". This means that sessions would be stuck to one server for a period of time. When this period of time goes by, the session could be stuck to a different server that is less loaded than previous one.

      The scenario in which "sticky session duration" makes sense is a distributable application that needs to have sticky session but not for the entire session.

      Some useful documentation:
      http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-sticky-sessions.html#enable-sticky-sessions-duration
      http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-sticky-sessions.html#enable-sticky-sessions-application
      https://developer.jboss.org/thread/273861
      https://developer.jboss.org/thread/275361
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42025998/sticky-session-duration

      A way to implement the functionality that allows to specify the session cookie / parameter name is attached in two files. Additionally, a file (META-INF/services/org.jboss.modcluster.container.catalina.EngineFactory) change, specifying the new factory, is needed.

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            rhn-engineering-jclere Jean-Frederic Clere
            arquitectura_dgsiaf Leandro Quiroga (Inactive)
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