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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ciro Iriarte wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm going to setup two web servers, both will be authenticating by
> ldap, this is how I would like both to behave:
>
> Case 1: User access directly a page from server1, apache2 asks for
> user & password.
> Case 2: User access directly a page from server2, apache2 asks for
> user & password.
> Case 3: User access directly webappA on server1, apache2 asks for user
> & password, then then clicks a link on webappA to webappB on server2
> and apache2 on server2 lets the user work WITHOUT asking for user &
> password and STILL sees him as Joe-the-authenticated user.
>
> Is it possible for apache2 running on server1 to pass the credentials
> to server2?, can this be done?

This type of problem is usually taken care of by session-persistence in
your load-balancer.  I'm not sure, but I don't think apache has got
anything that will help you. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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