Re: Authentication

Buchs Christian wrote:

> In the authentication process in Jigsaw, I have some problems to
> understand how the persistance works. In more details, when a user
> connects to the server, he authenticates once and then all
> subsequent requests don't need to be preceded by an authentication.

Because the client send the authentication header with all the subsequent
requests. So he authenticates on each request.

> How does it work? Is the IP address stored somewhere or is there some
> internal ID system implemented?

The client cache the username/password, that's all. Nothing is stored in the
server.

Regards, Benoit.

> I have browsed classes like GenericAuthFilter but can't see where
> the mecanism is done.
>
> Regards,
>
> ch. Buchs

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