Mike, It still could break albeit no fault of Apache. It depends on the criteria Apache uses for "stickyness". If it relies on an IP address you may have a problem.
Consider a case where your users are behind a balanced proxy server that uses sub servers . I personally had an experience where I was using a web application that would kick me out because the remote server thought my original session IP had changed (it had!). I found out that our institutional outbound proxy can arbitrarily call 1 of 3 servers. Our proxy managers are looking for a solution, but this could be a potential support issue unless your app can set some type of "sticky" header that Apache might honor instead of using an IP Address. -- Brad Perkins On 6/22/11 2:28 PM, Mike Vogt wrote: > Peter, > I was just poking around the Apache docs, and the load balancing module has a > feature called 'stickyness'. When enabled, then all requests from a given > user are proxied to the same back-end client, so this should take care of my > session concern. > > > > -----Original Message----- > Peter, > I do run Apache in front of our website, but have never used the load > balancing feature. I was thinking that the load-balancer would pass off > requests to the various 4D Clients, bit that only one would hold the session > info for a given request. How would a second client receiving a request from > Apache acquire the session info that resides on another client? > > Thanks, > MV > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Jakobsson > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] 64-bit version > > > You'd be better off using Apache or some dedicated load balancer and > doing it one layer out from the 4D Client level, then passing off the > requests to the various 4d clients. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ > _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
