Shibboleth Developers

[André Cruz <>]

On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > What this means is that sticky
> > sessions would not be very efficient.
>
> For 5 minutes? I can't imagine a short factor to get the user  
> through POST
> and one redirect would be a big deal.

You're assuming that one of the first actions a user does is log in  
to the application. Our applications have public pages that can be  
used without auth so there could be a case where a user logs in after  
the X min period.

That would only work if the sticky session period started when the  
login request initiated... Probably the balancer would have to know  
which pages triggered the Shibboleth flow and start the sticky  
sessions then..

A plugin could be developed for Perlbal but it's not trivial...

> If you're interested in helping with the ODBC cache, I'd be happy  
> to point
> you at it. It's basically waiting for a final rewrite against the  
> storage
> API. Jim did a first cut, and it just needs some tweaks.

I don't have much time on my hands right now, sorry. 	But where is it  
anyway? Maybe someone else fmor the list can pick it up..

André