Re: Re-2: LDAP authentication is very slow

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:31:51 +0000, <Subversion@sensor-technik.de>
wrote:

>The modules shipped with Apache are crashing every time a client tries
>to authenticate or when the server shuts down. Thats why I switched to
>mm_auth_ldap_module in the first place.

Try Apache 2.0.50 - it's a known problem with 2.0.55, though you can
get around it by compiling it yourself (it's something to do with the
LDAP library used to compile the module).

>And because authentication works fine with a web browser, I thougt it
>*may* be a subversion issue. The problem is, that with the svn command
>the client keeps sending authentification requests even if the Server
>already granted access.

The nature of Basic authentication means that authentication is
carried out for every request. It's the HTTP specification.

Greg

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