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Axis Authorization Handler

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