I’d like to have Galaxy and another application installed on the same Apache server and have the user authenticate only once. I think I understand how to do that by deferring authentication to Apache (instead of using Galaxy’s built-in database). So far, so good, I think.

What I’m wondering is if it is possible (in external user mode) to control the user experience of authentication versus being stuck with the one where the browser pops up the authentication dialog. Is it possible to implement a shared authentication mechanism that uses web pages for the UI? Or would we have to give up Apache-based security and snoop the Galaxy session cookie instead?

Many thanks -

John Duddy
Sr. Staff Software Engineer
Illumina, Inc.
9885 Towne Centre Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Tel: 858-736-3584
E-mail: jduddy@illumina.com