[thelist] session and/or cookie persistence across an ssl and non-ssl connection

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Thu Jan 17 17:58:23 CST 2002


At 03:34 PM 1/17/2002 -0800, Anthony Baratta expounded...
>Don't forget that each SSL connection uses up a "user" slot on the server. 
>Depending upon the OS NT or Win2K your licensing server will begin to 
>disallow SSL connections once your slots are used up.
>
>Therefore you only want SSL when you "need" SSL.

That's an error by Microsoft that was fixed by a service pack.  I remember 
when I ran up against that problem and had to bitch at Microsoft.  All 
current service packs for NT4 and W2K fix the # of CAL's = # of SSL 
connections problem.

See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q264908 for 
more information

Judah






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