Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: > It seems somewhat ridiculous to me to have a redirect to CAS, have > CAS redirect a service ticket back to the app, than have the app talk > to CAS in the background to validate the service ticket. Why can't you > just have a base ticket that allows you to just do the single backend > lookup and store that in a local cookie? Or can you? > > I did read about login caching, but that just seems like a band-aid > solution skirting the real issue.
One-time tickets protect against replay attacks. That's good for security and not ridiculous at all. Also the way it works makes cross-domain WebSSO possible. This is not possible with cookies in web browsers (also for very good reasons). Ciao, Michael. -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
