haproxy - can it manage sessions on its own?

Question

Is it possible to manage Sessions with ha proxy? If so, does it mean i can ignore creating sessions in my tomcat web application ?

If i want to have 3 different tomcats without sticky session i will have to cluster them and replicate sessions. however- if haproxy can manage the sessions instead it will be preferable.

is it possible to do?

so far iv'e managed to get setup a standard tomcat clustering with session replication, but i would like haproxy to manage the sessions if possibe.

Answer 1

No. Application sessions can't be managed in HAProxy. The HAProxy documentation doesn't mention it.

Don't confuse it with appsession, this refers to session persistence a.k.a. sticky sessions.