Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© 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 ...