WAAS cookies management ?

[karim.benhabyles]

Hi,

I'm asking my self a question, How does waas handle the cookies for http trafic?

Is there any session persistance mecanisme?

Is it transparent so handle by the browser as usual?

Is it cached?

I would like to know hows does it work exactly.

Regards

Karim

[Eric Rose]

WAAS does not need to worry about browser cookies as it is transparent to it. WAAS will provide TFO/DRE/LZ optimization today for the data message that is transmitted over the WAN.

[dstolt]

Karim,

WAAS currently only optimizes HTTP at the TCP level, so HTTP (application level)features like cookies are not cached per say, except for repeating bit patterns in a payload. If those bit patterns are repeated in future connections, we use DRE to offload those payloads as well as compression (LZ) and TCP optimizations.

I hope this helps,

Dan