What were you trying to do that didn't work?

mod_proxy_balancer setup breaks after upgrade to RHEL 9.5.

Issue analysis shows that stickysession configured as request parameter is ignored.

Matches ASF known issue:

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69443

What is the impact of this issue to you?

RHEL can't be upgraded to 9.5 because application breaks due to lost session.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

httpd

How reproducible is this bug?:

Consistentily

Steps to reproduce

1. Start with RHEL 9.5 or upgrade to it
2. install httpd package
3. Configure mod_proxy_balancer with LogLevel debug

   LogLevel debug
          <Proxy "balancer://loadbalancer">
                   BalancerMember http://localhost:16611 route=01
                   BalancerMember http://localhost:16612 route=02
                   ProxySet stickysession=node
                  ProxyPreserveHost On
           </Proxy>
           ProxyPass /app/ balancer://loadbalancer/
   

   Restart httpd

1. Invoke

httpd://localhost/app/test?node=.01

Expected results

Log should show how the node parameter is handled:

AH01159: Found value .01 for stickysession node 

Actual results

Instead, the balancer is invoked directly

AH10122: proxy: Entering byrequests for BALANCER (balancer://loadbalancer)