GCube-Enabled geo-services
Contents
Overview
By saying GCube-Enabled geo-services we identify all services involved in an SDI that understand and exploit gcube authorization framework. While dealing with these services, authentication and authorization of http(s) requests rely on the presence of the gcube-token just as like as any other gCube Service, relieving users and applications from dealing with :
- non standard authentication APIs
- specific instance credentials use
Key Features
GCube-Enabled geo-services is a technology provided by gCube offering the following key features on geo-services :
- Automatic geo-service authentication of http(s) requests declaring a valid gcube-token
Design
Philosophy
Geo-services are typically third-party software with no knowledge of gCube technology, thus all of these services implements their own approach in terms of security. gCube-enabled geo-services represents a wrapping layer around geo-services, harmonizing the security level of these technologies with the gCube Authorization Framework. Since Geo-services are used and integrated in other systems that might not be aware of gCube Authorization Framework, it is crucial that the layer introduced by gCube-enabled geo-services is absolutely transparent to non-gCube applications.
