Consider the following scenario:
- In Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, you create a Web farm that contains multiple Web servers.
- You create multiple Web publishing rules to publish multiple Web sites by using the same Web farm.
- In the Web publishing rules, the load balance mechanism is set to Cookie based.
In this scenario, ISA Server forwards requests to an incorrect Web server. When a client computer accesses Web sites that have different host names in the same session, ISA Server does not forward the request to the same Web server.
This problem occurs when the Web browser does not send a Web Publishing Load Balancing (WPLB) cookie to ISA Server.
By default, a Web browser does not use a cookie from one site in a request that it sends to another site. Therefore, the request that is sent to ISA Server does not contain the WPLB cookie. In this situation, ISA Server may select a different server from the Web farm to handle the request.
- Apply hotfix 940250.
For more information about this hotfix, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
940250
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940250/
)
Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: July 16, 2007
- Start Notepad, and then paste the following script into a new document.
Const SE_VPS_GUID = "{143F5698-103B-12D4-FF34-1F34767DEabc}"
Const SE_VPS_NAME = "CookieUserData"
Const SE_VPS_VALUE = " domain=.site.com;"
'Define the constants needed
const Error_FileNotFound = &H80070002
Const fpcPolicyWebPublishing = 2
Main(WScript.Arguments)
Sub Main(args)
If(args.Count = 1) Then
SetWPLBcookieUserData args(0)
Else
Usage()
End If
End Sub
Sub SetWPLBcookieUserData(ruleName)
' Create the root object.
Dim root ' The FPCLib.FPC root object
Set root = CreateObject("FPC.Root")
' Declare the other objects needed.
Dim isaArray ' An FPCArray object
Dim rule ' An FPCPolicyRule object
' Get a reference to the array object.
Set isaArray = root.GetContainingArray()
' Get a reference to the policy rule specified.
On Error Resume Next
Set rule = isaArray.ArrayPolicy.PolicyRules.Item(ruleName)
If Err.Number = Error_FileNotFound Then
WScript.Echo "The policy rule specified could not be found."
Else
Err.Clear
On Error GoTo 0
If rule.Type = fpcPolicyWebPublishing Then
Dim VendorSets ' An FPCVendorParametersSets collection
Dim VendorSet ' An FPCVendorParametersSet object
Set VendorSets = rule.VendorParametersSets
On Error Resume Next
Set VendorSet = VendorSets.Item( SE_VPS_GUID )
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
Err.Clear
' Add the item
Set VendorSet = VendorSets.Add( SE_VPS_GUID )
CheckError
WScript.Echo "New VendorSet added... " & VendorSet.Name
Else
WScript.Echo "Existing VendorSet found... value- " & VendorSet.Value(SE_VPS_NAME)
End If
Err.Clear
VendorSet.Value(SE_VPS_NAME) = SE_VPS_VALUE
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
CheckError
End If
rule.Save
WScript.Echo "Done!"
Else
WScript.Echo "The policy rule specified is not a Web publishing rule."
End If
End If
End Sub
Sub Usage()
WScript.Echo "Usage:" & VbCrLf _
& " " & WScript.ScriptName & " RuleName" & VbCrLf _
& "" & VbCrLf _
& " RuleName - Name of the Web publishing rule"
WScript.Quit
End Sub
Sub CheckError()
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Echo "An error occurred: 0x" & Hex(Err.Number) & " " & Err.Description
Err.Clear
End If
End Sub
- In the following text, replace .site.com; with the domain name of the Web site:
Const SE_VPS_VALUE = " domain=.site.com;"
Note Make sure that you include the semicolon at the end of the domain name. For example, if the same publishing rule allows for traffic to the hr.contoso.com site and to the finance.contoso.com site, and if the Web client sends requests to both sites, the whole line should resemble the following:Const SE_VPS_VALUE = " domain=.contoso.com;"
- Save the file by using the .vbs file name extension. For example, use the following name to save the file:
wplbCookieUserData.vbs
Note Microsoft Visual Basic script files use the .vbs file name extension. - At a command prompt, move to the location where you saved the .vbs file, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
cscript wplbCookieUserData.vbs RuleName
Note Replace the RuleName placeholder with the name of the Web publishing rule.
Note You can use this script to add any user data to the WPLB cookie. To do this, replace the value of the
SE_VPS_VALUE constant with the user data that you want to add. Make sure that you end each field in the cookie with a semicolon.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
For more information about a similar problem, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
937841
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937841/
)
ISA Server 2006 forwards requests to an incorrect Web server when a client computer accesses Web sites that have different URLs in the same session