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The Axis Authorization Handler is an handler able to protect any Axis web
service that requires authorization verification.
The Authorization Handler is placed in the request flow, in front of the
resource that needs protection. Every incoming request directed to the web
service is first analyzed by the handler, which extracts the client
certificate and passes the subject DN to the Authorization Manager.
If the Authorization Manager asserts that the client is associated to an
attribute the request is forwarded to the endpoint, otherwise the request
is blocked and terminated by the handler.
2004-05-05