[SHIRO-73] Add Authentication Caching to AuthenticatingRealm

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Environment: Any
• Assignee: Les Hazlewood
• Reporter: Toby Stevens
• Created: 06/Feb/09 14:10
• Updated: 24/Jan/12 19:17
• Resolved: 24/Jan/12 19:17

Description

Stateless clients would benefit from an authentication cache.

For example if a stateless client may make several authentication requests within a few seconds.

Ideally the cache timeouts would be different. For example i might want to sent the Authentication cache to 30 seconds, but the Authorization cache to longer.

(From previous email to Les)

I created a Realm that authenticates against a URL, if the user has
access. The problem is that we have a stateless client [maven2] that
connects to our server[Nexus], and needs to authenticate each time.
This means the same user needs to authenticate 9+ times in a few
seconds (for a single task).