Patent attributes
Embodiments are directed towards managing network traffic that includes SSL secured NTLM acceleration. A Packet Traffic Management Computer (PTMC) may receive a challenge sent by a server computer before the challenge is provided to a client computer. After receiving the challenge from the server computer, the PTMC may generate a cookie that at least includes a session-ID that corresponds to the client computer. The PTMC may add the cookie to the challenge before the modified challenge is forwarded to the client computer. If response is received from the client computer and it includes the same cookie that was sent with the challenge. The session-ID may be extracted from the cookie and employed to determine which server computer should receive the message. If a server computer may be determined, the PTMC may forward the message to the determined server computer.
