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In the modern web application world, a large proportion of sites are using SSL Offloading, be this for the added security of the web servers not having the SSL private key on them (and hence if compromised the certificate is not necessarily compromised as well) or for the performance boost associated of using hardware accelerators.

With some customers solutions I’ve seen a common requirement to do loadbalancing decision based on the actual application server serving the content, this obviosuly introduces a few issues if you’re using a single base URL for this