Patent ID: 8887233

Claim:
A method for authentication comprising: receiving a request from a client for a network service at a cache server; authenticating the client at the cache server for the request according to a non-cacheable authentication protocol, the non-cacheable authentication protocol specifying that the client be authenticated for each separate request with client credentials and additional, non-cacheable information that is invalid for authentication after use, which prevents caching the information necessary to authenticate the client for subsequent requests, the authenticating including passing client credentials to a client database manager; setting a cookie at the cache server for the authenticated client to access a domain of the network service; receiving a subsequent request from the client for an additional network service of the domain at the cache server, the request including the cookie; and authenticating the client at the cache server for the subsequent request with the cookie by bypassing the non-cacheable authentication protocol, and without passing client credentials to the client database manager.