I tried reducing ntlmsemtimeout to 1, but did not see any change in the behaviour. I have also managed to get this module to hang under our development environment now, though I'm not sure how come.
-----Original Message----- From: Shannon Eric Peevey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 11:03 p.m. To: Brett Beaumont Cc: Stefano Ciancio; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brendon Price Subject: Re: AuthCookieNTLM and browser hangs >>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, -- Shannon Eric Peevey => "speeves" Dyno-Mite! System Administrator => [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Web Support => (940) 369-8876 University of North Texas => http://web2.unt.edu -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
