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Defining cookie-based criteria

Clients can be categorized so that some benefit from preferential service based on pre-defined criteria. One or more of the criteria in the following table can be defined to load balance requests to different server groups.


User category Description
Individual User
An individual user is distinguished by IP address, login authentication, or permanent HTTP cookie.
User Communities
Some set of users, such as Premium Users for service providers who pay higher than normal membership fees are identified by source address range, login authentication, or permanent HTTP cookie.
Applications
Users are identified by the specific application they use. For example, priority is given to HTTPS traffic that is performing credit card transactions versus HTTP browsing traffic.
Content
Users are identified by the specific content they access.

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