Session Problems

[2168028160]

Hello, mod_auth_mellon developer. I want to share a session between multiple Apache, does mod_auth_mellon have a session sharing feature? For example, it stores the session to file, memcached, and redis, so that users can authenticate through server A, and then pass through server B without having to authenticate again.

[thijskh]

Is #14 maybe something you'd be interested in? Maybe you can help out to develop it.

[MartinStoll]

Hi @thijskh, although this is probably covered by #14, I'm still writing here because I'm looking for just any solution to preserve mod_auth_mellon sessions on Apache restart - preferably centrally for multiple cluster nodes. Redis would come in handy here, for example. Is this something you could help with?

[jnfeinstein]

I would also appreciate the functionality @2168028160 describes but at the least require sessions to persist across Apache restarts as @MartinStoll describes.

@thijskh the code linked in #14 is three years old and presumably outdated at this point. I am not familiar with Apache module development but I may be able to get started with a few pointers on how to integrate mod_session. I notice that mod_auth_gssapi has this integration, perhaps there is some code that can be reused? And at worst dumping the cache to disk every N seconds would be a step in the right direction.