Re: [wsrp-interop] guest/anonymous user access

[Rich Thompson <richt2@us.ibm.com>]

In order for a compliant Consumer to
send userCategory="wsrp:minimal", the Producer must have specified
it in its ServiceDescription.

Rich

Atul Batra <atul.batra@Sun.COM>

03/25/2004 01:54 PM

To	Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
cc	wsrp-interop@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject	Re: [wsrp-interop] guest/anonymous user access

So if I understand correctly, to allow the Consumer to send wsrp:minimal
for the userCategory and enable guest access per the convention, are we
are saying that the Producer should (or rather is best advised to) minimally
declare support for wsrp:minimal in it's ServiceDescription? Else, there
could be interop issues down the line (particularly with other implementations
that come along)?

Atul

Rich Thompson wrote: 

The spec explicitly says that the Producer declares all the user categories
it supports, including those defined by the spec (see 5.1.19). It is an
error for a Consumer to send a userCategory the Producer has not declared
as supported (see 6.10.1). 

The convention adopted by the Interop SC was to have both the userContextKey
and userCategory be wsrp:minimal for a guest user. How an implementation
supports changing the category to null is up to the implementation.

Rich

Maneesha Jain <maneesha.jain@Sun.COM>

03/25/2004 12:42 PM

To	Richard Jacob <richard.jacob@de.ibm.com>
cc	Atul Batra <atul.batra@Sun.COM>, wsrp-interop@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject	Re: [wsrp-interop] guest/anonymous user access

Richard Jacob wrote: 



Atul Batra <atul.batra@Sun.COM>
wrote on 03/17/2004 02:57:03 AM:

  
I know that was discussed a while back, but just to confirm -  are
Producers out there expecting anything other than
userContextKey=wsrp:minimal
(and userAuthentication=wsrp:none
as well)
in order to "recognize" a guest user? Specifically, does the
agreed to
interop convention mandate that userCategory be equal to wsrp:minimal
as
well?
    
yes, userCategory is wsrp:minimal
and if then the userContextKey is
wsrp:minimal,
too, it's a guest user with no userProfile.

cheers
Richard

  
Hi Richard,

Two more related questions : 

What do producers make out of a user whose 
userContextKey=wsrp:minimal
and userCategory=null ? How
is it different from a guest user whose userContextKey=wsrp:minimal
and userCategory=wsrp:minimal
?

For a guest user, would you recommend userCategory to be set to 
wsrp:minimal,
even when a producer doesn't define any user categories
in the ServiceDescription or defines user categories that are not one of
the  three standard user categories defined in the spec. Just want
to make sure, producers won't throw back InvalidUserCategoryFault
in 
this case.

thanks,
Maneesha