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Christophe,

On 12/2/13, 8:53 AM, Dehaudt, Christophe wrote:
> On 11/29/13, 8:55 PM, Dehaudt, Christophe wrote:
>> I don't believe you can have the F5 manage any part of the 
>> authentication. But you can use (expiring!) sticky
>> load-balancing. I've never used an F5 but I suspect that you can
>> use a combination of lb-generated cookie + server-generated
>> cookie to achieve a "unified stickiness". What you want is the
>> following:
>> 
>> 1. 2-step authentication has both steps going to the same server
>> (can use F5's cookie for stickiness)
>> 
>> 2. Subsequent authenticated requests go to that same server (can
>> use Tomcat's cookie for stickiness)
>> 
>> 3. All stickiness expires when the user's authenticated session 
>> expires. Since HTTP-DIGEST authentication does not have a
>> standard way to de-authenticate a client, you'll have to figure
>> out when this happens. I would use the invalidation of the
>> session cookie to trigger a reset of the F5's stickiness cookie.
>> I'm not sure how to actually do that with an F5.
> 
> I believe I already do 3 (clearing the LB cookie, every X mn), but
> this solution is client side, meaning everybody must be a good
> citizen. I would prefer a solution that enforces the policy = LB or
> server side

Just set the expiration-date of the cookie (on the server) to be 2
minutes?

- -chris
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