© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019
Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_10

10. Sessions

Yvonne Wilson1  and Abhishek Hingnikar2
(1)
San Francisco, CA, USA
(2)
London, UK
 

Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, from The Letters of Gustave Flaubert (1980)

A user’s interaction with an application over a period of time is known as a session. Upon authenticating to an application, a user expects to navigate through the application and perform various transactions during their session without ...

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