Hi Brian,

I'm thinking if it's possible to use JWT instead of cookie.

I'm not sure that cookie is mandatory in api calls because an api can be
call by a backend application or another api.

François Papon
[email protected]

Le 08/03/2019 à 18:40, Brian Demers a écrit :
> Using a JWT as a auth token (bearer or otherwise) should be dependent on a
> realm's implementation IMHO.
>
> Using a JWT as a session id direction is a different topic.  In this case i
> don't think it would provide any benefit (but i could be wrong or missing
> something here)
> The session id would be larger (more bits in the request/response
> payloads), and on the server side you would still incur a session lookup
> from storage.
> Again, I might be misunderstanding your use-case. let me know
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:23 AM Francois Papon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I'm agree about using the JWT for a remember me storage, especially
>> for APIs in a distributed / cloud environment.
>>
>> For the session id, how can we match the JWT sent by the consumer with
>> the session id?
>>
>> François Papon
>> [email protected]
>>
>> Le 07/03/2019 à 21:44, Brian Demers a écrit :
>>> I would agree on the bearer token use cases, though that would likely be
>>> dependent on a given realm (were to validate the bearer token)
>>>
>>> I'm not sure using a JWT as the session id would add much value.  We
>> would
>>> still need to look up an existing session, so the session key would just
>> be
>>> bigger?
>>>
>>> I have been thinking about how we could use JWTs for a remember me
>> storage,
>>> which might be inline with what we are doing now. (just not sure if there
>>> is a demand for it?)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 12:10 PM Francois Papon <
>> [email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that the session cache manager is a very nice feature in Shiro
>>>> and I was thinking about using the compact representation of JWT as the
>>>> session id in the cache manager.
>>>>
>>>> This could be very usefull because we just have to decrypt the JWT on
>>>> login and store the user profil in the cache manager.
>>>>
>>>> So after that, the calls will be only check in the cache without need to
>>>> uncrypt the JWT. The session validate could also be managed by the
>>>> session scheduler.
>>>>
>>>> I think it make sense for api calls for api gateway security policies
>>>> for example.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> François Papon
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> Le 07/03/2019 à 00:15, Brian Demers a écrit :
>>>>> What use cases are you thinking about targeting ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:33 PM Francois Papon <
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to start a thread about JWT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We already have a shiro-jaxrs module and I think it would be nice for
>>>>>> Shiro to be able to use JWT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is some existing implementations (Apache CXF JOSE, Apache
>> Geronimo
>>>>>> microprofile...) and for me it make sence to have an implementation of
>>>>>> JWT in Shiro.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> François Papon
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>

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