All,
We are testing AuthCookieNTLM to secure our Intranet. We are running Apache 1.3, mod_perl, and AuthCookieNTLM. Our requests are also rewritten using mod_rewrite. If we hit the server quickly enough, and with enough requests, the browsers start to hang. This problem only occurs in our UAT environment, while the module works really well in dev.
Some of our users are logged into a different domain and do get prompted for
their credentials on the domain we authenticate against. However, if enough of
these users attempt to log in to the intranet at once, the browsers start to
hang during the authentication process. Once one browser is hung, I can point
a new browser window at our intranet and the first browser window kicks back
into life, and the new browser window hangs.
It seems like the lock is getting stuck somewhere. Once the authentication is complete, and the authentication cookie issued, the user can continue to browse the intranet successfully.
Has anybody else experienced a similar problem with this module?
Gerald wrote this in the body of the module:
# we cannot attach our object to the connection record. Since in # Apache 1.3 there is only one connection at a time per process # we can cache our object and check if the connection has changed. # The check is done by slightly changing the remote_host member, which # persists as long as the connection does # This has to be reworked to work with Apache 2.0
I'm assuming that this can be fixed in a threaded mpm, but haven't looked into it yet. At this time, the only way to work around this would be to shorten the:
=head2 PerlSetVar ntlmsemtimeout
it defaults to 2 seconds, but can be specified. Try that, and let us know if you see some improvement.
thanks,
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