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[JIRA] Created: (JASPIC_SPEC-6) Support for HttpServletRequest#logout

From: arjan tijms (JIRA) <"arjan>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:50:53 +0000 (GMT+00:00)

Support for HttpServletRequest#logout
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                 Key: JASPIC_SPEC-6
                 URL: http://java.net/jira/browse/JASPIC_SPEC-6
             Project: jaspic-spec
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: arjan tijms


Servlet 3.0 introduced the [HttpServletRequest#logout|http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#logout()] method.

Invoking this method does not seem to cause any method on a configured auth module to be invoked. This makes it impossible for an auth module to fully manage the authentication session. A specific use case is the implementation of a "remember me" functionality. For this the auth module can e.g. insert a cookie into the response after a successful initial authentication. This cookie should then live beyond a session expiration, but has to be removed when a user explicitly log outs.

Without the auth module being notified of such an explicit logout invocation, there is no opportunity to remove said cookie.

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