Novell, Inc.

Bradley W Rupp

Hashem Mohammad Ebrahimi

Mel J Oyler

Ryan Michael Okelberry

Richard Duane Jones

Robert Wipful

Methods, systems, and data structures are provided for single sign-on with basic authentication on a transparent proxy. A user accesses a client to issue requests for content on an origin server. The transparent proxy requires user authentication before access can be granted to the origin server. The transparent proxy receives the requests and determines if the user is presently authenticated to the origin server. If the user is not authenticated, then the transparent proxy issues a basic authentication error to the client causing the client to prompt the user for authentication information. The transparent proxy directs the client to retain the authentication information and supply it with subsequent requests to the origin server. Further, the transparent proxy independently reconstructs the authentication information for subsequent requests directed to other servers under the handling of the transparent proxy, without requiring additional user action.

Single sign-on with basic authentication for a transparent proxy

A method for consensus decision making in a distributed system. Upon the detection of a system parameter change, the method specifies the communication of decision premises from one node to another node in the system. Consensus decision premises are determined by evaluating the various node premises. Each node then executes a choice function, allowing the system as a whole to respond to the system parameter change in either a centralized, decentralized, or independently coordinated fashion.

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Riverton, UT, United States of America

Bradley W Rupp