Just saw the blog post introducing 0.8 and it seems that it's a conscious 
decision to leave sticky sessions out.

On Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:28:17 PM UTC-7, dhruvbird wrote:
>
> Does the node clustering module provide hooks to achieve this (sticky 
> sessions) or will I have to re-implement a bunch of things from scratch or 
> copy-paste code?
>
> On Friday, June 22, 2012 8:08:30 AM UTC-7, Bradley Meck wrote:
>>
>> There are a couple ways to do this.
>>
>> 1. Use a session store that is transactional and shared (redis etc.) and 
>> store where a session should be forwarded to.
>> 2. Use a hashing method that will consistently point to the same 
>> location/worker for the same session (session could be ip/user/etc.), if 
>> the wrong worker gets the connection, forward it to the original worker.
>> 3. Use a master/slave setup using fork rather than cluster. Master gets 
>> all the connections incoming on a machine and processes them before 
>> forwarding them to the proper worker.
>>
>> Each method has its advantages.
>>
>> The alternative to this is to change an API to be state-less, which can 
>> be hard if connections are using multiple protocols.
>>
>> On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:34:42 PM UTC-5, dhruvbird wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have sticky sessions using the new cluster API? Some 
>>> custom logic such as a cookie based solution? Something similar to nginx 
>>> sticky module?
>>>
>>

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