On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:10:45AM +0200, hapr...@serverphorums.com wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply and thanks for all of the work on haproxy, it's > been very fun to play with. > > If I leave the ssl processing to the back end webservers and simply use > haproxy to distribute the load there is no way to make sure that client A's > sessions are consistently sent to webserver A on the back end is there?
No, you can't. But quite honnestly, you should really take a look at what happens in the application. It is possible that you have the ability to set the base URL in the config. > Maybe I could load balance based on the originating IP? There are some mixed results on this. One of my customers observes about 5% of their clients coming from variable IPs (mainly cache farms in enterprise networks). Others observe less. Also, I suspect that with the increase of smartphones on the net, changing IPs within a session will raise again, which is not a problem anymore since almost everyone does stickiness on layer 7 now. This will then force broken sites to be fixed, thus allowing more sites to relax their outgoing rules, and finally increasing the ratio of variable IPs too. If I were you, I would really try to fix the app's config. Regards, Willy
