Hello all, I sent this a few weeks ago, but wasn't able to get any
responses.

Does anyone else have session handling problems with ASP/ASP.net using
the following regexp "ASP\.NET_SessionId|ASPSESSIONID[A-Z]*" to handle
IIS applications.  

I took the original regexp from this thread:

http://www.apsis.ch/pound/pound_list/archive/2007/2007-07/1184948236000/
index_html?fullMode=1#1185006949000

But it doesn't seem to be working for me in Pound 2.4.3.  If it's any
help, Pound was compiled with the Google performance libraries and PCRE.

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Hello all, I was hoping someone might be able to help with a session
pinning problem that we've run into.  We currently have a few IIS
machines, but are having trouble balancing some applications (some
written in .net and some in classical ASP).  

We'd like to "pin" the user to whatever the first server that they came
to was.  We've tried several different configurations, but they don't
seem to quite work.

I did a search for this previously, and found that some people got this
regular expression to work: "ASP\.NET_SessionId|ASPSESSIONID[A-Z]*"

However, when I do this (tried on 2.4 and 2.4.3) we aren't able to see
the sessions, and pound actually seems to ignore the line.  Putting
parentheses around both cookie names makes pound balance on the cookie
name, instead of the value of the cookie.  If I only use one of the
cookie names, it seems to work correctly.  

Below are three approaches that I've tried.  Like I mentioned, using
only one seems to work, but from previous searches it looked like Pound
could handle regular expressions for cookie names, so I'm trying to
balance with either "ASP\.NET_SessionId" or "ASPSESSIONID[A-Z]*"

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

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# Uses the cookies name as key instead of cookie value.   All sessions
go to the same
# backend.
                  Session
                      Type    COOKIE
                      ID "(ASP\.NET_SessionId)|(ASPSESSIONID[A-Z]*)"
                      TTL     14400
                  End

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# poundctl never displays any sessions
                  Session
                      Type    COOKIE
                      ID "ASP\.NET_SessionId|ASPSESSIONID[A-Z]*"
                      TTL     14400
                  End

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# Seems to work properly.  Load balancing and pinning work correctly.
                  Session
                      Type    COOKIE
                      ID "ASP\.NET_SessionId"
                      TTL     14400
                  End

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