# Load balancer existing cookie

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024 "2016-03-14T07:50:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![hwaastad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/hwaastad/32/225_2.png) [@hwaastad](https://forums.suse.com/u/hwaastad)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/1 "2016-03-14T07:50:14Z")

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Hi,  
noticed that the option for using existing cookie for sticky load balancing has been removed (still in documentation).

I this a fact?

br hw

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**Author:** ![etlweather](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/etlweather/32/419_2.png) [@etlweather](https://forums.suse.com/u/etlweather)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/2 "2016-03-14T14:05:36Z")

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Same here, version 0.59.0.

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/3 "2016-03-14T15:28:21Z")

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Yes, haproxy removed support for it in 1.6. I think they have a different more generalized way to do it now, but we don’t support that.

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**Author:** ![etlweather](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/etlweather/32/419_2.png) [@etlweather](https://forums.suse.com/u/etlweather)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/4 "2016-03-14T16:35:17Z")

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Well for now I was able to achieve what I needed using: _Create new cookie_, _Mode: Prefix_. This is to load-balance between Tomcat servers using Memcached-session-manager. Don’t know if it will work for everyone but for my configuration it worked so at least I can have some stickiness.

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**Author:** ![hwaastad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/hwaastad/32/225_2.png) [@hwaastad](https://forums.suse.com/u/hwaastad)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/5 "2016-03-14T18:45:21Z")

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Hi,  
yeah, I think prefixing is the direct upgrade from “existing cookie”

I guess doc’s needs to be updated 🙂.

/hw

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/6 "2016-03-14T19:16:09Z")

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@hwaastad I’m working on it. 😉

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/7 "2016-03-15T21:39:52Z")

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FWIW, I’ve updated the docs regarding load balancer cookie options.

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/load-balancer-existing-cookie/2024/8 "2016-03-15T21:39:57Z")

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