On donderdag 15 september 2011 21:09:40 Mohit Gupta wrote:
> I'm sorry if I am asking the same question again. Let me state the problem
> in more explanatory words.
> I am using sessions based on a cookie value. This cookie is set very first
> time the user comes to the site.
> So, say a new user comes to the site. His cookie value won't be set. So,
> pound sends it to a random backend A. Then, this backend sets some
> persistent value X to that cookie.

The backend then sends its reply back to pound, which relays it back to the 
client. Meanwhile pound records the cookie value X and stores it into its 
session table.

> Now, the subsequent requests from this
> user will contain the cookie value set to X. So, when these requests come
> to pound, it will send them to a backend B based upon the cookie value X.
> Now, it is very much possible that backends A and B are different. ( A -
> randomly chosen and B -> chosen based upon the key X ).

No it's not, since the cookie value is already linked with backend A.

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