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Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Isn't everyone forgetting a little thing? Even is the reselect action was a valid option, the user would still need to login again on the "new" server.
/Mike/
Hi Mike,
That's the question. I am looking for a way to prevent users from re-authenticating, as far as I understand, it is not possible because when the user who currently loggined transferred to the new server must be re-authenticated by the new server back-end. Unless the servers themselves (meaning the back-end part) have the ability to exchange the session information of their users.
Thanks
- PeteWhiteAug 26, 2022Employee
I agree with Mike - this is not about connections to servers, it is at the HTTP level. In short, you need a common authentication mechanism across backend servers, or use APM to handle the authentication and passthrough the user credentials to the server. You may find that federation such as SAML or OAuth gives a near-seamless solution ( to re-authenticate, the client would be redirected to the IdP and assuming they have a valid session then be redirected back immediately ).
This requires some architectural thought - we in F5 Professional Services do this sort of thing all the time, it might be worth looking into that if you want to discuss it further.