[jboss-as7-dev] Making Admin Console Accessible over HTTP API

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>>> Are you planning to use just the HTTP API or would you be using the Native / Remoting API?
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>> HTTP
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> For HTTP the complete set being considered is 'BASIC, Digest, Certificate i.e. SSL and Kerberos/SPNEGO' - what are you using for your connections to the server?  There is quite a bit of client side support for all these mechanisms in Java already.
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> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/http-auth.html

okey - so we should be "safe" as long as we can find a good way to have the user provide the credentials.

>> Haven't seen any good usecases for using the native/remote api yet.
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> I don't think the HTTP side will be too difficult to support but using Remoting will also automatically give you all of the supported mechanisms for the Native connections.

More automatically than using the http auth api ?

/max

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>> /max
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>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Darran Lofthouse.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 03/09/2011 02:52 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>> Darran - I'm wondering which of all these various auth methods you are working
>>>> on we should support from the tools when starting/stopping/deploying/introspecting etc.
>>>> 
>>>> ?
>>>> 
>>>> basic username/password is trivial for us - anything above that I'm curious about.
>>>> 
>>>> /max
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 14:42, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Do we have any plans regarding when the console will be accessible to be
>>>>> served up from a HTTP API connection?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have started to define the authentication mechanisms to be supported
>>>>> over HTTP so shortly we may want to start verifying GWT with these
>>>>> mechanisms but I think we may have issues if communicating with a
>>>>> different host to the one that made the console available.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Darran Lofthouse.
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>>>> /max
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