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| Date: |
2002-Oct-06 20:40:35 (local)
2002-Oct-06 18:40:35 (UTC) |
| User: | rse |
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| Comment: |
fill OSSP sorp area with already existing material |
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ossp-pkg/sorp/BRAINSTORM.txt -> 1.1
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+ OSSP sorp BRAINSTORMING
+ =======================
+
+ Currently:
+ - PESP: Apache+mod_rewrite+MySQL+mod_proxy
+ - IT Intranet: Apache+mod_rewrite+mod_proxy
+ - IS Intranet: Apache+mod_php+MySQL
+
+ Purposes:
+ - HTTPS to HTTP gateway
+ - HTTPS sticky pass-through
+ - user single-sign on & sticky authentication (user-id|client-cert -> session id)
+ - remote session tracking (session id -> user id + information)
+ - load balancing over multiple backend servers
+ - backend response caching
+
+ Possibilities:
+ - Apache+mod_rewrite+mod_proxy+?
+ - Pound: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
+ - Squid?
+ - Apache mod_proxy_add_forward: http://develooper.com/code/mpaf/
+ Apache mod_rpad: http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/
+ - Stunnel
+ - Symbion SSL Proxy: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sslproxy/
+
+ Libraries:
+ - libcurl
+ - pth
+ - sa
+ - cfg
+
+ Prerequisites:
+ - polling abstraction library (kqueue, poll, select, /dev/poll, etc) for Pth and stand-alone
+ - SSL support for OSSP sa
+
+ Applications:
+ - NMIT PESP web portal frontend server
+ - IT Operations Intranet frontend server
+ - IS Operations North Europe Intranet frontend server
+ - MOF
+ - ChangeLog
+ - Team.xmldb
+ - ChangeLog
+
+ Tables
+ ======
+
+ Session
+ -------
+ session_id /* unique session id */
+ session_expire /* expire time of session */
+ session_scope /* scope/grade/level of session (login, visit, etc.) */
+ account_id /* unique account id (attached user account) */
+
+ Account
+ -------
+ account_id /* unique account id */
+ account_pw /* password of account */
+ account_name /* realname of account holder */
+ account_location /* realname of account holder */
+ ...
+ groups...
+
+
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ossp-pkg/sorp/SPEC.txt -> 1.1
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+ OSSP sorp SPECIFICATION
+ =======================
+
+ Mandatory Requirements
+ ----------------------
+
+ o URL rewriting on redirects and in HTML content (hyperlinks)
+ (important for full backend hiding and avoiding of by-passing traffic)
+
+ o full HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 compliant frontend service
+ (important for full conformance with browser features and performance)
+ => apache, squid, ??
+
+ o HTTPS/HTTP 1.0/1.1 to HTTPS/HTTP 1.0/1.1 proxy functionality for
+ backend service
+ (to reduce load and complexity on backends)
+ => apache, squid, ??
+
+ o forwarding of client IP and HTTP/1.1 "Host:" header to backend servers
+ (for correct logging and virtual hosting on backends)
+ => apache mod_xxx, ??
+
+ o backend service selection based on
+ - HTTP/1.1 Host header
+ (for real virtual hosting on frontend)
+ - URL rewriting rule (or at least URL prefix matching)
+ (for seamless linking of backends into frontend URL namespace)
+ - user authentication information
+ (for sticky user backends, etc.)
+ => apache mod_rewrite?
+
+ o user single sign-on with stickyness and automatic sign-on expiring
+ (for comfortable sign-on over browser restarts and security)
+
+ o authentication via one or more of the following credentials:
+ - userid+passwd
+ (for standard authentication)
+ - SSL client certificate
+ (for elegant authentication)
+ - host-based ACL
+ (for by-pass authentication)
+
+ - authentication backends:
+ - Kerberos Tickets?
+ - LDAP?
+ - SQL?
+ - S/Key OTP?
+ - PAM?
+ - SASL?
+ - Local PW
+
+ o mapping of incoming (and successfully authenticated) authentication method
+ and identity to perhaps different authentication method and identity on
+ backend server communication.
+
+ o automatic session tracking in frontend service
+ (for reducing complexity on backends)
+ - via HTTP Cookie key "session" (read-write)
+ - via URL QUERY_STRING key "session" (read-write)
+ - via SSL client certificate (read-only)
+
+ o easy remote session information retrival from backend servers
+ (for storing sessions on frontend only and still have on backends)
+
+ o extendable user session information set
+ (for flexibility in the backends and to avoid DBs there, too)
+
+ o easy administration of user accounts (passwords!)
+ and session information via Web UI
+ (for obvious administration of whole setup)
+
+ o allow bookmarking of subpages by redirecting from subpage
+ request to login on missing session and after loggin in again back to subpage
+ (for supporting subpage bootmarking)
+
+ Optional Requirements
+ ---------------------
+
+ o HTTPS sticky pass-through connections
+ (for HTTPS on backends)
+
+ o server side include (SSI) or other dynamic content expansion
+ in backend response on frontend server
+ (for global navigation bars, headers, footers, etc)
+
+ o load balancing over multiple backend servers
+ (for performance)
+
+ o automatic backend disabling on downtime/error if multiple backends exist
+
+ o caching of backend responses
+ (for performance)
+
+ o content manipulations
+ - splash screen additions
+ - header/footer/css additions
+ - watermark additions
+ (for global services)
+
+ o pre-fetching from backend servers of inline images and referenced pages
+
+ Run-time Pseudocode
+ -------------------
+
+ read client-request (CReq) from client
+ create backend-request (BReq) by copying CReq
+ extract request URL
+ select backend URL and insert into BReq as new URL
+ extract from IReq and remove from BReq authentication id
+ 1. from QUERY_STRING
+ 2. from HTTP Cookie header
+ 3. from SSL client certificate
+
+ if (URL requires authentication) {
+ check authenentication id;
+ if (not exists or is invalid authentication id) {
+ ...
+ stop;
+ }
+ optionally map authentication id according to backend URL
+ insert (optionally mapped) authentication id into BReq as
+ - QUERY_STRING addition
+ - HTTP Cookie header
+ }
+ send BReq request to backend server
+ read BRes response header from backend server
+ extract response code from BReq
+ filter BRes to IRes
+ if (redirect) {
+ inverse map Location header according to backend selection rules
+ }
+ if (code eq 200/OK and content-type == HTML) {
+ while body is read in junks
+ inverse map hyperlinks according to backend selection rules
+ }
+ else {
+ while body is read in junks
+ pass through unchanged
+ }
+
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