Auto reconnect on authentication failure
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:12 am
First off, I want to praise the hard work that went into this product. I use it, love it and recommend it to people in our company. We use an Astaro firewall, and the Windows client distributed with the firewall is less than desirable.
One humble request: For whatever reason, (probably a dicey LDAP connection on the back end) our firewall occasionally (like, once a day occasionally) will throw a random authentication failure when trying to connect with saved credentials. Now, the saved credentials aren't really incorrect, but our firewall decides to reject them anyway. When this happens, Viscosity clears out my saved credentials, forcing me to re-type them. Would there be a way instead of just automatically clearing the saved credentials on a failure, to offer a manual retry with the same credentials? Obviously, I don't want it auto-spamming the firewall with bad credentials if I really did put in bad credentials and locking out my account. Ideally, there would be a manual way to try the same credentials instead of deleting them, and it would save me a lot of time.
This is the default behavior for TunnelBlick, which I use at home on my Mac occasionally. When the failure happens, a window pops up which says something to the effect of "Try again with same credentials" or "Enter new credentials." 99 times out of 100, the try again option works for me. This turns a random disconnect into a two-click process rather than having to re-enter my 40 character password again.
At any rate, such a feature would make this a perfect product in my eyes. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my post.
One humble request: For whatever reason, (probably a dicey LDAP connection on the back end) our firewall occasionally (like, once a day occasionally) will throw a random authentication failure when trying to connect with saved credentials. Now, the saved credentials aren't really incorrect, but our firewall decides to reject them anyway. When this happens, Viscosity clears out my saved credentials, forcing me to re-type them. Would there be a way instead of just automatically clearing the saved credentials on a failure, to offer a manual retry with the same credentials? Obviously, I don't want it auto-spamming the firewall with bad credentials if I really did put in bad credentials and locking out my account. Ideally, there would be a manual way to try the same credentials instead of deleting them, and it would save me a lot of time.
This is the default behavior for TunnelBlick, which I use at home on my Mac occasionally. When the failure happens, a window pops up which says something to the effect of "Try again with same credentials" or "Enter new credentials." 99 times out of 100, the try again option works for me. This turns a random disconnect into a two-click process rather than having to re-enter my 40 character password again.
At any rate, such a feature would make this a perfect product in my eyes. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my post.