On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 00:54, Stephen J. McCracken wrote: > We have a couple of servers set up (RedHat 7.3, Squid2.5STABLE2) as > siblings with each having the other as fallback. This is setup through > an automatic proxy script (proxy.pac). We are interested in putting in > authentication (LDAP). Is there any way to have a user login to just > one server and have the other accept the user as already authenticated > if they get switched to the other server? Pointers to documentation or > manuals is fine. Thanks!
The answer is no: HTTP is stateless, what looks like a 'login session' is really the browser logging in on every single request automatically. When the browser decides to use a new proxy, it will ask for authentication from the user again. However, once a user has given the browser details for each proxy, it -shouldn't- (it's browser dependent) ask again (until the user closes the browser). Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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