Thank you Harsha!
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Harsha Chintalapani
wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> Kafka client connections are long-llving connections,
> hence the authentication part comes up during connection establishment and
> once we authenticate regular kafka protocols can
Hi Christian,
Kafka client connections are long-llving connections,
hence the authentication part comes up during connection establishment and
once we authenticate regular kafka protocols can be exchanged.
Doing heartbeat to keep the token alive in a Authorizer is not a good idea.
We have implemented our own LoginModule and Authorizer. The LoginModule
does an authentication on the client side, obtains a token and passes that
token down to our custom SaslServer which then verifies that this token is
valid. Our Authorizer gets that token and asks another custom service if
the