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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Emmanuel Dreyfus <ma...@netbsd.org> on 2017/02/09 04:22:09 UTC

Session support for mod_auth_basic [PATCH 60708]

Hello

I posted this patch that brings mod_session support for mod_auth_basic
in trunk and 2.4.x
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60708

Any comment on it? The motivation was to reduce the latency of Webdav
operation from Windows: using just HTTP basic authentication, each
request is first done without credentials, hits a HTTP 401 and then
succeeds with credentials. 

With the help of a session, all requests after initial HTTP basic
authentication have a session cookie and can succeed on first attempt,
saving one HTTP request/response.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@netbsd.org