Re: [undertow-dev] Undertow Security: PicketBox5
Anil Saldhana wrote:
Hi All,
I was not aware of this mailing list until today.
3-4 months ago, we rewrote PicketBox5 to be a generic security framework.
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/SECURITY/Java+Application+Security
https://github.com/picketbox/picketbox
We neither have JAAS stuff nor Servlet Security
(FORM,DIGEST,CLIENT-CERT,BASIC) tied to Tomcat Authenticators.
I am wondering if there is a scope for using PicketBox5 with Undertow.
Also there is no tie in into any containers in
PicketBox5.
The test cases that you may want to review:
https://github.com/picketbox/picketbox/tree/master/http/src/test/java/org...
Maybe Stefan from our side can help out. I would guess we can produce a
prototype branch with undertow + PBox5.
I have had a look through this today, and the big problem with using
this for Undertow is that it is based on the Servlet API's. We want to
be able to use Undertow as the domain HTTP server as well, and we really
need to be able to re-use the security without adding a servlet
dependency into the AS core.
I will go through this more fully tomorrow, as I am still recovering
from my 24 hour flight, but it looks like there are also other things
that this may not support such as multiple authentication mechanisms and
optional authentication.
I'm not ruling out using PicketBox, however at this stage I think that
the best approach is probably to have the HTTP authentication mechanisms
in Undertow, where they can make use of the async IO features as much as
possible, and just provide a very simple SPI that we can then back with
PicketBox in order to keep Undertow core free of external dependencies.
Stuart
Regards,
Anil
PS: Feedback from *Jason Greene*: I'll let Stuart and Darran comment,
but my thinking is that we want to greatly limit the dependencies of
standalone undertow. Integration in AS is a different story though. I
would imagine this means some kind of SPI between undertow and the
container.
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