Joe Cooper wrote:
> Seriously, I would expect an autenticated cache to serve up at least 2/3
> the number of outgoing requests/second it could serve without auth
> (those kinds of numbers have been discussed to death), and probably
> quite a bit more. Authenticated use does lead to more client requests,
> but the initial challenge-request is quite light-weight. The only way
> to know for sure would be to benchmark it yourself.
Basic authentication only adds a marginal amount of requests and is very
lightweight for the cache to process.
* 1 challenge request at the start of a "user session".
* 1 call to the auth helper each auth ttl.
NTLM or Digest authentication is anoher business.
Regards
Henrik
