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Benoy Antony commented on HADOOP-12049: --------------------------------------- +1. If there are no further comments, I can commit this tomorrow. > Control http authentication cookie persistence via configuration > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-12049 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12049 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: security > Affects Versions: 3.0.0 > Reporter: Benoy Antony > Assignee: hzlu > Labels: patch > Fix For: 3.0.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-12049.001.patch, HADOOP-12049.003.patch, > HADOOP-12049.005.patch, HADOOP-12049.007.patch > > > During http authentication, a cookie is dropped. This is a persistent cookie. > The cookie is valid across browser sessions. > For clusters which require enhanced security, it is desirable to have a > session cookie so that cookie gets deleted when the user closes browser > session. > It should be possible to specify cookie persistence (session or persistent) > via configuration -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)