Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition
by Daniel W. Dieterle, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
Identifying load balancers
High-demand websites and applications use some form of load balancing to distribute load across servers and to maintain high availability. The interactive nature of websites makes it critical for end users to access the same server for the entire duration of the session for the best user experience. For example, on an e-commerce website, once a user adds items to the cart, it is expected that the user will connect to the same server again at the checkout page to complete the transaction. With the introduction of an intermediary, such as a load balancer, it becomes very important that the subsequent requests from the user are sent to the same server by the load balancer.
There are several techniques that can be used ...
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