American Library Association Annual Conference 2002
June 15th, 2002
User Authentication Strategies in Multi-Institutional Environments > OhioLINK > Authentication system
Server Architecture
- Using Apache HTTPD for database servers
- Each database server has two virtual hosts
- IP-based authentication
- Cookie-based authentication
- Mod_rewrite is used to redirect browsers with cookies to cookie-based virtual host
- Browsers with unrecognized IP addresses are redirected to authentication server
- Custom Apache module is used for cookie validation