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Silly Dude
Asked: 2017-10-12 19:36:30 +0800 CST

AWS CloudFront can't handle security cookie

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I have an IIS web server behind a ELB. The web server uses security cookie to keep user signed in during the session. I have CloudFront for the purpose of redirecting HTTP to HTTPS.

If I directly access the ELB using its own DNS name, everything works fine. But if I access the CloudFront using "www.eyecloud.net.au", after I sign in, it keeps bouncing me back to the login page.

It is my first time using CloudFront. What went wrong?

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1 Answers

  1. Configure CloudFront to forward cookies to your origin server. You may want to use a whitelist of cookies to forward.

    Also, using CloudFront just to do http to https forwarding seems excessive. Surely IIS can do that trivial task. This page says it can.

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