Hi Simon, I have a bit of experience with REST and authentication from my work on http://simpy.com . If you look at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simpy-dev/messages you will see several recent messages about different authentication options that may give you some food for thought.
As for GData auth: - GData oversion page describes the auth with "send a cookie/token, save in server-side, and then expect it from the client on subsequent requests" (paraphrased). That sounds fine to me. I don't think you need to worry about the client IP, as long as your cookie/token is long and random enough (please correct me if I'm wrong about this), although you might want to add the IP to the string you base your MD5 checksum on. If you store the token in the session, it will automatically get the TTL of the HttpSession. - Running GData server in a cluster might require session replication. It sounds like a big bite for SoC, but ... I never used WADI, but I _think_ that might be easiest way to get session replication going: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/wadi.html On the other hand, WADI might be an overkill if all you want is to share this token. If that's all you need, perhaphs, is JavaSpaces (e.g. http://www.dancres.org/blitz/ ). Otis ----- Original Message ---- From: Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:48:59 PM Subject: GData - Milestone 2 Hello everyone, it was quiet the last week, well I had a bad cold so Milestone 2 starts a bit late... Milestone 2 is about client authentication. GData client auth is also defined (well kind of) in the gdata protocol reference on code.google.com. The client is supposed to support either a cookie base auth or just an auth token send back as an post response. The client authenticates itself via a post request to the servers auth interface sending following parameters: [EMAIL PROTECTED]&Passwd=north23AZ&service=servicename&source=Gulp-CalGulp-1.05 the email represents the account name which is associated with a service provided by the server. Each server can provides m services with n feeds. Each feed belongs to one account. As it is quiet hard to figure out whether a client does support plain token or cookie auth I will send both back to the client. after the client has received the auth token or cookie it will call some restricted resource on the server sending either the cookie or the auth token. The cookie contains only the auth token. So these are facts, I will generate a MD5 key as the auth token using the email, password and a timestamp or something similar and save it on the server in a kind of a session storage. the session storage will hold the sessions for a certain time and will invalidate it if it is timed out. Additionally i will save the client ip (at least the first 32 bits) within the session and check it on subsequent requests. So this is fine as long as the server is a stand alone server. What happens if there is a load balancer and a server farm with more than one gdata server instances?! I could define all gdata servers in the cluster / farm in each config file and if a session is created or modified the current server sends a notice to all other servers to replicate the session. (Session is not the HTTPSession). But this could be quiet a lot of work so synchronize all hosts and register / unregister them if the crash... I guess this should be done in a later state of development, I just have 2 month left... So this might be a task for development after the SoC program has finished. Any Ideas about that? yours simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
