Bug ID 443139: Session data is unavailable during ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.0.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.5.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.1.0, 11.2.0, 11.2.1, 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 11.4.1, 11.5.0

Fixed In:
11.5.1, 11.5.0 HF1, 11.4.1 HF4, 11.3.0 HF9, 11.2.1 HF11

Opened: Jan 15, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Related Article: K15181

Symptoms

An iRule that attempts to get session data in the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event will always see empty values.

Impact

An iRule that depends on being able to manipulate session data during the ACCESSS_SESSION_CLOSED event will fail to find the data.

Conditions

This issue was a side-effect of a fix to a different issue. This problem will occur for all iRules that attempt to get session data in the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event.

Workaround

There is no workaround available.

Fix Information

Session variables have been made available during the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event. As a side effect, session variables are still available even after issuing the "ACCESS::session remove" command, because the actual removal is deferred until after the current iRule completes. However, it is considered an error to access that data outside of the ACCESS_SESSION_CLOSED event.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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