[Building Sakai] Windows 8 Compatability & Load Balancing

[Kevin Pittman]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:30:37PM -0500, Kevin Pittman wrote:
> With Windows 8, however, there doesn't seem to be any way to get either
> browser to work.  Both exhibit symptoms that we've seen before when
> cookies are disabled, except that I've verified on both browsers that
> cookies are fully enabled.  Those symptoms are that the user tries to

Just to close this out, I actually found the problem with a little help
from our BIG-IP expert.  It turns out that our BIG-IP boxes do something
non-standard in generating a session cookie with an expiration date, so
we switched them to generate a standard session cookie that expires when
the browser session ends, and all of the Windows 8 browsers are happy now.  

I'm still not sure why IE, Chrome, and Opera on Windows 8 react so badly 
to the malformed cookie, while on other Windows O/Ss they usually worked 
okay, and Chrome & Opera never had any trouble with the cookie on Macs.
Whatever the case, at least I know the source of the problem now.

Thanks,
Kevin
Georgia Tech Sakai Application Administrator

P.S. It would still be interesting to hear what other schools are using 
for load balancing.

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Kevin Pittman                              kevin.pittman at oit.gatech.edu
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