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What exactly does IgnoreAGCookie IPC Mean?

Can someone explain to me exactly what "IgnoreAGCookie IPC" does? What does it mean?  The docs say this:

"Set this option to disable clearing the IPC cookies."

What are IPC cookies?

I opened a support case back in July and asked this and I'm still waiting for an answer from support.

Thanks!

Matt

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    I'm thinking this has something to do with the Access Gateway cookie (IPCZ)?  But still not sure what?

    Matt

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    I would say so. Access Gateway HTTP proxy has a session cookie IPCZQX03a36c6c0a.

    I have not tested, by my theory is that this cookie is removed from request when sending it to the backend server.

    If you set that option, that cookie is not cleared and backend server can also receive it.

    Kind regards,

    Sebastijan

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    It's amazing to me that support cannot even answer what these do. Two months should be enough time to figure that out.  

    So I tried setting this, and it does indeed appear to solve my issue.  But it makes absolutely no sense to me.  Why would the back-end application care about the IPC cookie?  There must be more to this.  I also thought by default the AG doesn't send the IPCZ cookie to the backend anyway (there is another advanced option to turn it on).

    I wish they'd just document this stuff better, it would help both support and end-users.  That said, I'm having trouble even getting to the HTML based Admin guide:

    https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/access-manager/5.0/admin/

    Is anyone else having issues getting to it?

    There are ignore directives for the IDC and SPC cookies as well.  What do those do?

    Matt

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    We are having problems with IPC Cookie.

    Some apps invalidate login sessions when IPC cookie is present.

    Setting "IgnoreAGCookie IPC" solves the problem.

    Doesn't make any sense but it works.