I’ll answer my own question.
Short story: Everything was working as designed.
The problem, as we now understand it, was in fact due to the LockOutRealm
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/realm.html#LockOut_Realm_-_org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm
The load balancer not being st
I am running into an intermittent problem with Digest-Authentication. This is
with tomcat 7.0.39
The issue appears to be that clients will occasionally get locked out for 5
minutes. The problem
appears to happen with there is a combination of good password and then bad
password, or the
other wa
