[undertow-dev] security and Http Upgrade/Websocket connection requests

[Bill Burke]

+1.  Use HTTP for connection setup and auth...use any custom protocol 
theereafter.

On 10/8/2013 2:18 PM, Jason Greene wrote:
> IMO we should explore moving the auth portion to HTTP. We could implement some kind of trust relationship between the protocol provider and the upgrade handler. This would have the nice benefit of giving consistent authentication capabilities to all protocols we support (e.g. including non-Remoting protocols like HornetQ)
>
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. If there is any security rules defined the security handler takes effect before the upgrade, so if the request is not authorised the upgrade will not go ahead.
>>
>> Web socket wise it is possible to get the authenticated principal from io.undertow.websockets.jsr.UndertowSession#getUserPrincipal() (assuming you are using JSR-356 web sockets).
>>
>> For built in HTTP upgrades such as EJB etc we leave authentication to remoting, after the connection has already been upgraded.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, 8 October, 2013 6:54:14 PM
>>> Subject: [undertow-dev] security and Http Upgrade/Websocket connection	requests
>>>
>>> Are we going to be able to authenticate/authorize HTTP Upgrade/Websocket
>>> connection requests throw Undertow handlers and/or the new Servlet API?
>>>
>>> Thanks
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