dave davesons wrote, On 2009-03-20 10:18:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have configure a reverse proxy with client certificate validation.
> 
> When accessing the site using firefox, firefox first asks the user to
> select the certificate to authenticate as it should do. After this first
> authentication, however, the user is asked again to choose the
> certificate to use. In the firefox traces, I see that this second
> authentication is needed for favicon.ico.

The behavior you describe is due to server misconfiguration.  You must
enable the server's session cache, and configure session cache lifetimes
to be long enough that they will last at least as long as a user's
typical session with that server.
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