Active-cookie affinity | SSL session ID

Load Balancer: URI affinity

URI affinity allows you to load balance Web traffic to caching proxy servers, which allow unique content to be cached on each individual server. As a result, you will effectively increase the capacity of your site's cache by eliminating redundant caching of content on multiple machines. You can configure URI affinity at the rule level, and once it is enabled and the servers are running, then the Load Balancer will forward new incoming requests with the same URI to the same server.

Dispatcher can use URI affinity only with HTTP. For HTTPS you would need the CBR component in conjunction with IBM WebSphere Edge Components Caching Proxy. This configuration and load balancing to caching proxy servers are beyond the scope of this book. Refer to Concepts, Planning, and Installation for Edge Components Version 6.0, GC31-6855, for more information.