Hi William

Thanks for the quick response. I guess you meant "Apache cannot route
requess from multiple clients to same proxy...." .

Would this mean that providing this support in apache proxy would not be
trivial work ?  Or is it just the fact that this is not safe and hence this
support is not provided ?

In our scenario we need this kind of support, so was planning to fix this.

Kindly advice on how much do you think would be the work load. I am just
getting familiar with the mod_proxy code

Thanks & Regards
Devi

On 2/23/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Devi Krishna wrote:
>
>  I am trying to get mod_proxy_http to work in pass through mode for NTLM
> authentication. I see that in apache proxy we dont keep the backend
> connection persistant. This causes NTLM to fail because on receiving
> type2 message from client, the proxy forwards this to the Origin Server
> using a new connection. This causes the NTLM authentication to fail

Turn off keepalives.  Because Apache can now route requests from multiple
clients to the same proxy connection, the combination is lethal.

NTLM/SSPI is connection-oriented, in violation of HTTP, rendering it
either unproxy-able or at least unsafe to retain/share connections.

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