[ARROW-5877] [FlightRPC] Fix auth incompatibilities between Python/Java

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.1, 0.15.0
• Component/s: FlightRPC
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 08/Jul/19 14:12
• Updated: 01/Aug/19 22:33
• Resolved: 10/Jul/19 19:40

Description

It turns out the blocking-forever issue was a combination of problems in Python and Java. We should simply fix the issues.

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The Flight Handshake method can be insecure, and currently has a surprising failure mode; we should document these caveats (blocks forever waiting on client/server; insecure depending on deployment configuration)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4838