| Caches CAS service tickets and CAS proxy tickets for stateless connections.
When a service ticket or proxy ticket is validated against the CAS server,
it is unable to be used again. Most types of callers are stateful and are
associated with a given HttpSession. This allows the
affirmative CAS validation outcome to be stored in the
HttpSession, meaning the removal of the ticket from the CAS
server is not an issue.
Stateless callers, such as remoting protocols, cannot take advantage of
HttpSession. If the stateless caller is located a significant
network distance from the CAS server, acquiring a fresh service ticket or
proxy ticket for each invocation would be expensive.
To avoid this issue with stateless callers, it is expected stateless callers
will obtain a single service ticket or proxy ticket, and then present this
same ticket to the Acegi Security System secured application on each
occasion. As no HttpSession is available for such callers, the
affirmative CAS validation outcome cannot be stored in this location.
The StatelessTicketCache enables the service tickets and proxy
tickets belonging to stateless callers to be placed in a cache. This
in-memory cache stores the CasAuthenticationToken, effectively
providing the same capability as a HttpSession with the ticket
identifier being the key rather than a session identifier.
Implementations should provide a reasonable timeout on stored entries, such
that the stateless caller are not required to unnecessarily acquire fresh
CAS service tickets or proxy tickets.
author:
Ben Alex
version:
$Id: StatelessTicketCache.java 1784 2007-02-24 21:00:24Z luke_t $ |