Delegated resource use in a content based routing environment

A computer program product for routing network traffic comprising:

• a computer-readable storage memory device;
• first program instructions stored by the computer-readable storage memory device, to, during content-based routing of computer network traffic by a routing device and subsequent to an initial real-time look up to route a first user's traffic to a specific back-end server, determine that an access request contains a routing cookie;
• second program instructions stored by the computer-readable storage memory device, to examine the contained routing cookie to determine an original cookie scope according to a original path associated with the routing cookie;
• third program instructions stored by the computer-readable storage memory device, to, responsive to the original cookie scope being a root value, to add to the access request a delegation routing cookie having a scope of a delegation path value to a delegated resource associated with a first delegated user, wherein the first delegated user and the first user are different, and wherein the delegation path value is different from the original path value;
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• fourth program instructions stored by the computer-readable storage memory device, to, subsequently redirect the computer network traffic containing the delegation routing cookie to the delegated resource.

A system for routing network traffic comprising:

• a data processing apparatus having hardware logic circuits for routing computer network traffic;
• a routing cookie detector portion of the data processing apparatus which, during content-based routing of computer network traffic and subsequent to an initial real-time look up to route a first user's traffic to a specific back-end server, determines that an access request contains a routing cookie;
• a routing cookie examiner portion of the data processing apparatus which examines the contained routing cookie to determine an original cookie scope according to an original path associated with the routing cookie;
• a delegate cookie designator portion of the data processing apparatus which, responsive to the original cookie scope being a root value, adds to the access request a delegation routing cookie having a scope of a delegation path value to a delegated resource associated with a first delegated user, wherein the first delegated user and the first user are different, and wherein the delegation path value is different from the original path value;
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• a traffic redirection portion of the data processing apparatus which subsequently redirects the computer network traffic containing the delegation routing cookie to the delegated resource.