What's the best way to generate a token that the frontend can use after a
successful initial authentication?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Pavel Bucek <pavel.bucek_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Can you share what you really want to do? Count some statistics?
>
> Identifying client can be done via credentials as you already know, but
> clients machine? That is probably impossible without some client-side code
> involved.. (and it still can't be 100%, MAC addr can be modified, ..)
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> Pavel
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> On 3/31/11 5:41 PM, Arthur Yeo wrote:
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> Thanks, Pavel. I will keep that in mind.
>
> The only problem is that by doing that, the user now know that MAC addr
> is formally passed in as a param.
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> I am looking for things that are std in all incoming HTTP requests which
> can uniquely identify the client machine. Even the IP addr could be
> "misplaced" by a proxy.
>
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Pavel Bucek <pavel.bucek_at_oracle.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Arthur,
>>
>> you can't get senders MAC address, it is not even present in incoming
>> packet/datagram. All you can get is MAC address of last switch/router on the
>> way and the MAC of interface on app server side, which is kind of useless
>> for you I guess (seems like you want to use this info as an ID).
>>
>> ONLY way how to do this is include this info in the request send by
>> clients.
>>
>> Pavel
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>> On 3/31/11 4:45 PM, Arthur Yeo wrote:
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>> Petr,
>> Thanks!
>> How would you hook this up to serving a call in Jersey?
>> --
>> Arthur
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>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Petr Jurák <petr.jurak_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> If you really want MAC, you can use java.net.NetworkInterface and
>>> method getHardwareAddress() (see
>>>
>>> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/NetworkInterface.html#getHardwareAddress()
>>> ).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Petr
>>>
>>> 2011/3/31 Jakub Podlesak <jakub.podlesak_at_oracle.com>:
>>> > I do not think so. It is a bit too low level, i am afraid.
>>> > And i am even not sure how to get this inforamtion
>>> > for the local interfaces in Java...
>>> >
>>> > ~Jakub
>>> >
>>> > P.S. Please also note, that for the IP address itself,
>>> > Jersey relies on the underlying container.
>>> >
>>> > On 03/30/2011 02:04 PM, Arthur Yeo wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks, Jakub, I saw getRemoteAddr() and that helps.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there anything for the remote MAC address?
>>> >>
>>> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jakub Podlesak
>>> >> <jakub.podlesak_at_oracle.com <mailto:jakub.podlesak_at_oracle.com>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On the Servlet container, you should be able to get
>>> >> the HttpServletRequest injected:
>>> >>
>>> >> @Context HttpServletRequest req;
>>> >>
>>> >> and get the address from there.
>>> >>
>>> >> Does it help you?
>>> >>
>>> >> ~Jakub
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 03/30/2011 01:19 PM, Arthur Yeo wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> All,
>>> >> When servicing a request in Jersey, is there a fast way to
>>> >> obtain the IP-addr of the client?
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Arthur Y.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Arthur Y.
>>> >
>>> >
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>> --
>> Arthur Y.
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> --
> Arthur Y.
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Arthur Y.