Re: [Netpass-users] looping through NetPass

[jeff m. <jcm...@os...>]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 17:29 -0500, Julian Y. Koh wrote:
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> I wonder now if perhaps toolbars and other things that are constantly trying
> to update information via HTTP are causing NetPass to get confused by having
> a large number of sessions open, perhaps even overflowing the total number of
> sessions that NetPass/Apache can handle and thus putting some people back
> into the LOGIN phase.


that could possibly be true. we periodically report on top-URLs and
instruct mod_rewrite to deny those. attached is the current list that we
filter. we generate this list by doing a simple awk/sort/uniq on
access_log and looking for urls that are obviously coming from automated
apps.

the sessions, even though there are many of them, are mostly short-
lived. so unless you see many hundreds of httpd processes running,
that's probably not what's happening. 

have you put the latest netpass code in place along with disabling
cookies per the instructions i sent out a week or two ago? that should
resolve any toolbar related looping issues (which we saw here at UB as
well).

jeff