Aaron,
Below are Wireshark captures of with and w/o www. The www request is not doing anything except returning the 301. It is not returning the redirect or the persistence cookie. Is this expected behavior?
With www;
BCEv@
Fdd@yPEe-P@)iGET /hello.txt HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/xaml+xml, application/x-ms-xbap, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.ddcpoc.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
CBE@m@y
FddPe-EyP):HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0
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Without www;
BCEv@
Fdd@yP7P@)eGET /hello.txt HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/jpeg, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/xaml+xml, application/x-ms-xbap, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: ddcpoc.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
CBE[@h@y
FddP7cPHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Last-Modified: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:05:44 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "aaf644d455cc1:0"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:35:33 GMT
Content-Length: 10
Set-Cookie: cookie_20=w6kqN0rnyKHSgn88ypggjDSkaLZsHrBeiviqjzef1SvezbovkWO8gk/UZgSPLAtk7hv7o66oLYBBbww=; expires=Tue, 09-Aug-2011 13:55:33 GMT; path=/
SUccess!!!
Dave