I have been testing a copy of ASL 6.203 with eDirectory SSO and have noticed a disturbing bit of behavior. I don't know if it is my configuration that is the issue, or a product problem.
When, on your client machine, you are logged into Novell, SSO works fine and everything is great. BUT, if you are not logged into Novell and simply use basic authentication to ASL via the browser, your web browsing slows to a crawl.
Looking at the authentication log, it appears that while you are authenticated and cached, each piece of the page that is downloaded kicks off another attempt at SSO, rather than using your already cached credentials. Once that fails, it notices that you were previously authenticated and lets the download proceed.
The VERY disturbing thing about this is that while it is doing this SSO lookup over and over, utlization on the Netware LDAP server you have the ASL box pointed to goes way up to 80-100% and stays there until you stop browsing. And that is only with one user in testing......
Anybody experience anything similar or have any configuration suggestions? It seems like a bug where the cache of authenticated IP addresses is not checked before attempting SSO, but I am willing to entertain the possibility that I have screwed something up.
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