[OTDev] Token validity and long tasks ...
surajit ray mr.surajit.ray at gmail.comThu Jun 9 06:34:43 CEST 2011
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Hi Andreas, On 9 June 2011 01:41, Nina Jeliazkova <jeliazkova.nina at gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 June 2011 13:38, surajit ray <mr.surajit.ray at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Nina, Andreas, >> >> In the A&A workflow a token has a certain life time after which it >> becomes invalid. So if someone starts a task and provides a token for >> dataset access and upload - the access will work as it is done >> immediately and the token is valid, however the upload will fail as by >> that time the token would become invalid (as the task takes a long >> time). One way would be store the user credentials on the server >> (Maxtox) which I think is not the correct thing to do. The credentials >> should exists only in one secure place. >> > > One solution could be to try to renew the token, while it is still valid. > Whats the mechanism to renew tokens ? > Nina > > >> Another solution would be to have configurable lifetime for a token - >> but that would mean estimating the task completion time (which may be >> difficult if not impossible to do). >> >> A third method would be to store the result dataset locally, but that >> would compromise the data confidentiality in case the Maxtox server is >> compromised. >> >> What is the solution to this problem ? >> >> All in all I am finding it difficult to align the A&A requirements >> with our use case. Any help is appreciated ... >> >> Regards >> Surajit >> _______________________________________________ >> Development mailing list >> Development at opentox.org >> http://www.opentox.org/mailman/listinfo/development >> > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development at opentox.org > http://www.opentox.org/mailman/listinfo/development > regds Surajit
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