9 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxUsing memcache to set variables| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Avleen Vig | Aug 7, 2009 8:13 pm | |
| miradev | Aug 12, 2009 5:49 am | |
| Johan Bergström | Aug 12, 2009 6:08 am | |
| Valery Kholodkov | Aug 12, 2009 7:01 am | |
| Avleen Vig | Aug 14, 2009 2:33 am | |
| Marcus Clyne | Aug 14, 2009 5:42 am | |
| Johan Bergström | Aug 14, 2009 6:19 am | |
| Valery Kholodkov | Aug 14, 2009 8:22 am | |
| Valery Kholodkov | Aug 14, 2009 8:27 am |
| Subject: | Using memcache to set variables | |
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| From: | Avleen Vig (avl...@gmail.com) | |
| Date: | Aug 7, 2009 8:13:28 pm | |
| List: | ru.sysoev.nginx | |
I started using the geo module to direct users by IP address, this week, and really like it!
It got me thinking about another thing I've been wanting to do: Direct users to different machines based on some arbitrary data. I don't want to rely just on cookies, because those can be manipulated. Here's what I was thinking, and I'm wondering if it can be done some how in nginx?
The sessionid is stored in a cookie. This can't be manipulated or the users ends up not being logged in. Store the sessionid in memcache, and have the value set to the name of a location. Have nginx fetch the value for 'sessionid' from memcache, and then redirect the user internally to that location.
Is this even remotely possible? I think some hardware load balancers can do it, but I'm too poor to buy one of those :-)