[rt-users] WebExternalAuth performance

[Christian Gilmore]

You could throw Cache::Cache around your external program that uses
Net::LDAP, effectively embedding the cache into your external auth package.

Thanks,
Christian

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Christian Gilmore
Technology Leader
GeT WW Global Applications Development
IBM Software Group


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com]On Behalf Of Neil Bingham
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:45 AM
> To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] WebExternalAuth performance
>
>
> Christian Gilmore wrote:
> > You'll want to use a caching mechanism around your external auth
> > mechanism. For instance, I use a combination of Apache::AuthenCache
> > with Apache::AuthenLDAP.
>
> I see from the net that you wrote Apache::AuthenLDAP.  I'm
> actually doing
> LDAP auth, but we are using an Exchange 5.5 server to
> retrieve the data, and
> mod_auth_ldap couldn't talk to it.  In the end we resorted to
> mod_auth_external and wrote a script around Net::LDAP to do it.
>
> As our LDAP server is 170 miles away up a frame relay link
> the overhead of
> invoking mod_auth_external and then doing the lookup is what
> causes our
> delay.
>
> I'll investigate later...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil.
>
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