login problems with proxy server

[bino]

Hi all,

We have a web application our customers use to check product etc. The common login procedure including setting a cookie to the local host for session management has always worked fine.

Recently, we have had a problem with a customer using MS proxy server for the web. As I understand it, the proxy server actually hits sites a user requests. The user does not directly hit the site, but rather views a cached page on the proxy server.

Many times when this customer logs in, the proxy server messes up the login procedure. Either they cant login, or they jump right into the site without loggin in, viewing a cached page, but cant access areas on the site because they arent logged in but rather viewing a cached page.

Are there any techniques anyone suggests for dealing with login procedures and users using a proxy server? Does the cookie get set on the proxy server instead of the loca computer doing the request?

 

[mahouben]

I'm not a webspeed expert, but ASP.

The simplest thing would be: turn of the proxy option so that the server won't cache anything.

Other option is:
What I did is creating a procedure called Redirect.
When I want to call another page for example "checklogin.htm" you can also call it like this: "checklogin.htm?random=123873" and next time you call it like this "checklogin.htm?random=11112" etc etc.

You see, the procedure Redirect will generate a new url to the proxyserver. It will cach every request. But you will get the newest everytime.

hope this helps,
Angelo