Authenticated Sessions at the HTTP level for the iControl API (HTTP Headers?)
We're using i-Control-11.2's Interfaces object and doing some serious pounding of the system. BigIp has no trouble handling the load; however, we're going through a third party authentication/authorization application (TACACS+) which is having trouble keeping up.
Is there a way to maintain the Axis HTTP session once authenticated? I tried using the SOAP "session" header but that didn't work. I'm pretty sure that's more of an application-level session. I'm assuming the HTTP X-iControl-Session header will function the same way. I'm wondering if the BigIp web server will respect HTTP session authentication.
If anyone out there has any ideas, I'm open to trying them. We may be exploring pooling authenticated tcp connections with keep-alive. I'm really hoping there's a better solution.