There is a way to setup a load balancer so that a customer, once connected
to the "cluster" would always receive the same machine. This is all up to
your load balancer guys then. Tell them you need people to always get the
same server. For them it's not a big deal because their load balancers would
still work, distributing whole sessions, and not just individual
transactions.
I know this wasn't the answer you expected, but it fixes your problem and
doesn't require you to change your strange system :-)
(Also adheres to the "If it works, don't touch it" philosophy).
Skaag
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:53 PM
Subject: OT: Session Related
> Hello gang
>
> I have a question about a situation that I am facing. Currently we are
> using servlets to store session information. i.e. For instance, you
> the front end people wanted to store data into the session they would
> call SessionServlet?step=save&sessionId=123&myVal=xyz. In turn a call
> to it with step=get would return xml containing the value previously
> stored. It's a somewhat rudimentary way of getting around cookies. Our
> front end is written in a version of Vignette that doesn't support
> jsp(another story). My question is, the infrastructure guys recently
> introduced a load balancers and now we are not guaranteed to get the
> same server. Big problem. Have any of you solved a problem similar to
> this. Unfortunately, upgrading to the next version of Vignette isn't
> the solution. We are about a year or more away budget wise. Thanks
> again for taking the time to read an off topic post.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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