I hope nobody minds me bumping this. Has anybody seen this kind of behaviour using mod_auth_ldap in an .htaccess file? Thanks, Marcus -----Original Message----- From: Del Greco, Marcus [mailto:marcus.delgreco@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:35 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] mod_auth_ldap under Apache 2.0.52, Red Hat Hello, I am using mod_auth_ldap under Apache 2.0.52 on Red Hat, via an .htaccess file, to authenticate users into a directory where I have a cgi application. Initial authentication works just fine. The problem comes when the browser is left unattended for awhile, when the user is logged in. If there is no activity for some undetermined amount of time (but almost always when left overnight), the authentication seems to grow "stale", and navigating within my application will not continue unless several or more clicks are applied. After clicking for a minute or two, something breaks the log jam, and suddenly the app is working fine again. No error is every given eithher in the browser or the Apache error log. Just hangs until it breaks through. Seems to happen in all browsers I've tested. Behavior goes away when I remove the .htaccess file, but so does the authentication challenge. :) The content are my .htaccess file are as follows: AuthName LDAPaccess AuthType Basic Satisfy All AuthLDAPURL ldap://our.ldap.server/dc=unh,dc=edu?uid?base?(objectClass=*) require valid-user Not knowing really where to start, I tried tweaking cache settings in httpd.conf as below, to no effect: <ifModule mod_auth_ldap> AuthLDAPCacheTTL 0 </IfModule> Does anyone have experience with the details of LDAP authentication that migth help me get by this "stickiness" problem when the browser remains idle for long periods? Marcus -- Marcus Del Greco Computing and Information Services University of New Hampshire http://pubpages.unh.edu/~delgreco --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx