IBM WebSphere Application ServerTM
Release 8

com.ibm.websphere.security.web
Class WebSecurityHelper

java.lang.Object
  extended by com.ibm.websphere.security.web.WebSecurityHelper

public class WebSecurityHelper
extends java.lang.Object

Provides methods to perform security functions for web applications.

Since:
WAS 8.0
Version:
WAS 8.0

Constructor Summary
WebSecurityHelper()
           
 
Method Summary
static javax.servlet.http.Cookie getSSOCookieFromSSOToken()
          Extracts the SSO token from the subject of current thread and builds an SSO cookie out of it for use on downstream web invocations.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

WebSecurityHelper

public WebSecurityHelper()
Method Detail

getSSOCookieFromSSOToken

public static javax.servlet.http.Cookie getSSOCookieFromSSOToken()
                                                          throws java.lang.Exception
Extracts the SSO token from the subject of current thread and builds an SSO cookie out of it for use on downstream web invocations. The caller must check for null return value.

When the returned value is not null use Cookie methods getName() and getValue() to set the Cookie header on an HTTP request with header value of Cookie.getName()=Cookie.getValue()

Returns:
an object of type javax.servlet.http.Cookie. May return null.
Throws:
java.lang.Exception

IBM WebSphere Application ServerTM
Release 8