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Subject: [wsrp-wsia] [I#84] More than a boolen in secureClientCommunication


Raised by: Sasha Aickin (and Alejandro Abdelnur)
Status: Active
Topic: Interface
Class: Minor Technical
Title: More than a boolen in secureClientCommunication
Date Added: 10-Sep-2002
Document Section: Interfaces/6.1
Description:
The argument secureClientCommunications to getMarkup() seems to me to demand more than a boolean.  It would be nice (with some sort of extensible string) to indicate what level of security is being used with the client, what kind of network is being used, etc.
JSR168 defines (leveraging the Servlet specification) this 2 pieces of information. For authentication type defines 4 constants: BASIC, CLIENT_CERT, DIGEST and FORM, modeled after authentication mechanisms commonly used with HTTP.
the isSecure attribute is a boolean indicating if the communication between the client and the consumer is secure or not (i.e.: HTTPS). Note that a client-consumer communication can be authenticated but not secure and vice versa. Also note that JSR168 explicitely says that this information s between the client (user agent) and the portal.
 


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