[keycloak-dev] User sessions added

[Bill Burke]

On 5/9/2014 6:59 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> User sessions have been added. In summary when a user logs in a new session is created (and persisted in the model). The identity cookie as well as all tokens/refresh-tokens are associated with a session. When a user logs out the session is invalidated (removed from the model), which invalidates the identity cookie and all tokens/refresh-tokens.
>
> There's two related issues left to do:
>
> * Make sure adapters only log out a specific session (if LoginAction contains a session id)
> * Allow a user to log out all sessions through the account management console
>
> Also, we may want some mechanism to retrieve the status of a session from applications. This could be a REST endpoint, or the crazy iframe technique from OpenID Connect. I think this can be postponed to after 1.0 though.
>

The crazy IFrame techique would require this REST "ping".  At least for 
us, as our cookies would be http-only.


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