- From: Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:18:37 +0200
- To: Buchs Christian <cbu@elca.ch>
- CC: Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr>, www-jigsaw@w3.org
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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Received on Wednesday, 28 April 1999 07:22:07 UTC