Re: Tomcat 7.x.x, 8.x.x, 8.5.x and 9.x.x: Session serialization w/o authentication related information

2019-12-02 Thread Carsten Klein
On 01/12/2019 23:04, Mark Thomas wrote: I'm with you. And likely our setup is special in a way. However, I've rarely seen that you have to re-enter credentials in a professional web application like Google or Facebook, for example. Yes. But if those apps were running on Tomcat I doubt that

Re: Tomcat 7.x.x, 8.x.x, 8.5.x and 9.x.x: Session serialization w/o authentication related information

2019-12-01 Thread Mark Thomas
On 29/11/2019 11:48, Klein, Carsten wrote: > However, we are developing Ajax-driven > B2B client applications, which terminate / end the session when they > detect loss of authentication. Technically, these apps periodically send > keep-alive messages to the server (in order to keep the session

Re: Tomcat 7.x.x, 8.x.x, 8.5.x and 9.x.x: Session serialization w/o authentication related information

2019-11-29 Thread Klein, Carsten
On 28/11/2019 10:20, Mark Thomas wrote: On 28/11/2019 08:03, Klein, Carsten wrote: Hi there, Thanks for answering my questions. See my remarks inline: in all recent Tomcat versions the standard session implementation declares authentication related fields as 'transient', so both the session

Re: Tomcat 7.x.x, 8.x.x, 8.5.x and 9.x.x: Session serialization w/o authentication related information

2019-11-28 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Carsten, > in all recent Tomcat versions the standard session implementation > declares authentication related fields as 'transient', so both the > session's authType as well as it's authenticated Principal is not > saved and restored across resta

Re: Tomcat 7.x.x, 8.x.x, 8.5.x and 9.x.x: Session serialization w/o authentication related information

2019-11-28 Thread Mark Thomas
On 28/11/2019 08:03, Klein, Carsten wrote: > Hi there, > > in all recent Tomcat versions the standard session implementation > declares authentication related fields as 'transient', so both the > session's authType as well as it's authenticated Principal is not saved > and restored across restarts