risdenk commented on a change in pull request #274: KNOX-2212 - Token 
permissiveness
URL: https://github.com/apache/knox/pull/274#discussion_r384132552
 
 

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 File path: 
gateway-server/src/main/java/org/apache/knox/gateway/services/token/impl/AliasBasedTokenStateService.java
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 @@ -92,9 +93,17 @@ protected long getMaxLifetime(final String token) {
   @Override
   public long getTokenExpiration(final String token) throws 
UnknownTokenException {
     long expiration = 0;
-
-    validateToken(token);
-
+    try {
+      validateToken(token);
+    } catch (final UnknownTokenException e) {
+      /* if token permissiveness is enabled we check JWT token expiration when 
the token state is unknown */
+      if (permissiveFailureEnabled && StringUtils
+          .containsIgnoreCase(e.toString(), "Unknown token")) {
 
 Review comment:
   What? We catch an `UnknownTokenException` and then are doing a string check 
on the error message? Why?

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