Both are generally handled via 'gateway=true'. In the past, we had
discussions on allowing having CAS clients, the Java client at least, send
out heartbeat signals to keep the TGT alive, but that's all I recall. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Rohmann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 9:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [cas-user] re-validation of an ST and TGT-extention without
> redirecting the user to CAS login page?
> 
> Hello cas-users,
> 
> I got a two services working with CAS SSO. But as a service ticket (ST)
is
> only valid for the actual log-in and a very short time, I was wondering
how
> one should approach two things:
> 
>  1) re-validate the user is still logged into CAS, a.k.a. has a valid
TGT
> having a much shorter application session lifetime than the TGT lifetime
> might be.
> (This completely ignores the fact that one could simply do support
Single-
> Log Out (SLO) for the service so CAS can invalidate old TGTs.)
> 
>  2) extending the lifetime of the TGT through activity in one (or more
> services) but without sending the user to the CAS login page again?
> Should one simply embed a request to the CAS webserver into every
service
> website so the user-agent does requests to CAS from time to time? Maybe
via
> a simple AJAX request? How does one throttle those requests then?
> 
> 
> 
> I have seen the diagram on
> https://jasig.github.io/cas/development/installation/Logout-Single-
> Signout.html
> but am still wondering if a user would not expect to still be logged in
> (valid TGT) after being active for some time in one service for a while,
> somehow "showing" activity.
> 
> Of course one could argue that switching between services occasionally
and
> therefor ending up being redirected to CAS should be enough to maintain
the
> TGT, but imagine a rather short TGT lifetime (sliding window, so
expecting
> activity) and a user being active in an long lived application like an
> groupware or a soft phone. If the user shows some sort of activity
where,
> extending the TGT and therefor staying logged is what the user would
expect.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Christian
> 
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