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André,

On 11/27/13, 5:15 AM, André Warnier wrote:
> Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 27/11/2013 07:34, Dehaudt, Christophe wrote:
>>> Is there a way to share the nonce between servers so they can
>>> act as one?
>> 
>> No. You'd need to customise the DigestAuthenticator to do that.
>> 
>>> I would like to get your advices , how to make a multiple
>>> server deployment running with Http digest.
>> 
>> Use sticky load-balancing.
>> 
> 
> Or do the authentication at the front-end load-balancer level, and
> set Tomcat's authentication to accept what the front-end says ? 
> (E.g. 
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/ajp.html#Standard_Implementations
>
>  #tomcatAuthentication)

While it is popular to do so, I don't think anyone really uses httpd
for industrial-strength load-balancing. Can an F5 do authentication
(and forward it to Tomcat?). I suspect not in any way that would work
well with the back-end application.

- -chris
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