11:18 a.m.
This patch is to fix an issue that Jack reported some time ago regarding
authentication in Java TPS.
It was speculated that it had to do with ESC and tpsclient not expecting
same credential names, etc.
(note: I understand that Jack worked out something that was to get him
through what he was working on, but it was not meant as a permanent
solution, hence my investigation and separate patch)
I spent some time investigating to find out the root cause and a final
solution.
Here is what I discovered:
In the old TPS, in case of "ExtendedLoginRequest", the uid/pwd are
called "UID" and "PASSWORD";
where as in case of "LoginRequest", the uid/pwd are called
"screen_name"
and "password"
In tpsclient, BOTH "ExtendedLoginResponse" and "LoginResponse" are
coded
to put "screen_name". My suspicion is with the old TPS the
"ExtendedLoginRequest" never worked.
So, in summary, it's the difference between "extended" and "not
extended" rather than the clients. The clients just happened to specify
extended/not extended by default so it appears that way.
Note: In this patch, I added changes to tpsclient in an attempt to make
extendedLogin work but I learned later from jack that tpsclient never
does that, so please ignore that part of the patch. I made some attempt
to restore that part of tpsclient with a new patch but couldn't get it.
I will sort it out with our git experts later.
This works with tpsclient, but I am still waiting for jack to test it
out with ESC.
thanks,
Christina
11:22 a.m.
and here is the patch.
On 07/18/2014 09:18 AM, Christina Fu wrote:
This patch is to fix an issue that Jack reported some time ago
regarding authentication in Java TPS.
It was speculated that it had to do with ESC and tpsclient not
expecting same credential names, etc.
(note: I understand that Jack worked out something that was to get him
through what he was working on, but it was not meant as a permanent
solution, hence my investigation and separate patch)
I spent some time investigating to find out the root cause and a final
solution.
Here is what I discovered:
In the old TPS, in case of "ExtendedLoginRequest", the uid/pwd are
called "UID" and "PASSWORD";
where as in case of "LoginRequest", the uid/pwd are called
"screen_name" and "password"
In tpsclient, BOTH "ExtendedLoginResponse" and "LoginResponse" are
coded to put "screen_name". My suspicion is with the old TPS the
"ExtendedLoginRequest" never worked.
So, in summary, it's the difference between "extended" and "not
extended" rather than the clients. The clients just happened to
specify extended/not extended by default so it appears that way.
Note: In this patch, I added changes to tpsclient in an attempt to
make extendedLogin work but I learned later from jack that tpsclient
never does that, so please ignore that part of the patch. I made some
attempt to restore that part of tpsclient with a new patch but
couldn't get it. I will sort it out with our git experts later.
This works with tpsclient, but I am still waiting for jack to test it
out with ESC.
thanks,
Christina
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8:16 p.m.
Thanks to jack for helping me test.
After much consideration, I think I will add my changes on top of his
last patch instead to make things speedier on both sides.
So, please don't review this patch...
thanks,
Christina
On 07/18/2014 09:22 AM, Christina Fu wrote:
and here is the patch.
On 07/18/2014 09:18 AM, Christina Fu wrote:
> This patch is to fix an issue that Jack reported some time ago
> regarding authentication in Java TPS.
> It was speculated that it had to do with ESC and tpsclient not
> expecting same credential names, etc.
> (note: I understand that Jack worked out something that was to get
> him through what he was working on, but it was not meant as a
> permanent solution, hence my investigation and separate patch)
>
> I spent some time investigating to find out the root cause and a
> final solution.
>
> Here is what I discovered:
> In the old TPS, in case of "ExtendedLoginRequest", the uid/pwd are
> called "UID" and "PASSWORD";
> where as in case of "LoginRequest", the uid/pwd are called
> "screen_name" and "password"
>
> In tpsclient, BOTH "ExtendedLoginResponse" and "LoginResponse"
are
> coded to put "screen_name". My suspicion is with the old TPS the
> "ExtendedLoginRequest" never worked.
>
> So, in summary, it's the difference between "extended" and "not
> extended" rather than the clients. The clients just happened to
> specify extended/not extended by default so it appears that way.
>
> Note: In this patch, I added changes to tpsclient in an attempt to
> make extendedLogin work but I learned later from jack that tpsclient
> never does that, so please ignore that part of the patch. I made
> some attempt to restore that part of tpsclient with a new patch but
> couldn't get it. I will sort it out with our git experts later.
>
> This works with tpsclient, but I am still waiting for jack to test it
> out with ESC.
>
> thanks,
> Christina
>
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