[rt-users] WebExternalAuth performance

[bill at daze.net]

> I've been experimenting with the WebExternalAuth in RT and have noticed
> something a little odd.
> 
> We are using an external authentication program for all our Apache
> authentication by using mod_auth_external.  What I have noticed is that
> since switching RT to using WebExternalAuth my external auth program is
> called every time a URL is requested from RT.  This is posing a serious
> performance overhead as the auth lookup takes several seconds.

I believe that the *web browser* is making those requests each time it
loads a page in the directory tree where you have auth defined in apache.