Re: URL authentication

2010-08-23 Thread Paweł Wielgus
.xml) for resource > authorization. Is this a good idea? Is it enough? > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: CRANFORD, CHRIS [mailto:chris.cranf...@setech.com] > Verzonden: maandag 9 augustus 2010 15:50 > Aan: Struts Users Mailing List > Onderwerp: RE: URL authentication > >

RE: URL authentication

2010-08-09 Thread Guy Thomas
: URL authentication Pattern A: /unsecured/* Run whatever unsecured interceptors on these. This would not include the authentication interceptor or the allowed resource check interceptor. That's because these are considered OPEN to everyone. Pattern B: /secured/* Run the authentic

RE: URL authentication

2010-08-09 Thread CRANFORD, CHRIS
simply logout and back in and the access is fixed. Lots of ways to do it, but I would keep them separate. Chris > -Original Message- > From: Dave Newton [mailto:davelnew...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:23 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re:

Re: URL authentication

2010-08-09 Thread Dave Newton
FWIW, I wouldn't combine the two into the same interceptor since they're rather different things... plus resource access is more likely to take place in a different layer, and not be a cross-cutting concern. Dave On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Rahul Mohan wrote: > I think we are mixing two iss

Re: URL authentication

2010-08-09 Thread Rahul Mohan
I think we are mixing two issues here. Authentication deals with verifying whether a user is what he/she claims to be and authorization is the mechanism for checking whether someone has access to a particular resource. The standard practice is to prevent unauthenticated users from accessing a