This isn't really answer to your question, but to possibly simplify your authentication mechanism, you ought to take a look at the pear package Liveuser which allows you to have somewhat of a distributed authentication architecture. Check out http://pear.php.net/package/LiveUser
-Brent ----- Original Message ----- From: "FrzzMan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: [PHP] SOAP speed > Hello, > > I'm developing some site that will share the same UserDB, because these > site are quite large in scale so I decided to host it on different servers. > > Each site will have it own cache of active user on the site, so the user > wont' have to be authenticated every request (will be a pain in the a$$ > I'm sure), the cache will be cleared when the session time out. > > But since I don't have much experience with these kind of distributed > authenticate process with SOAP, so I wonder how long it will take to > receive the response from the UserDB server using SOAP. > > There's a change that the site server will be located @ Europe, while > the UserDB server will be located @ US (for global access). > > If the transmission time is about 1, 2 or even 3 secs, I think it > acceptable. btw, do you have any experience about this? > > TIA > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
