[zeromq-dev] Authenticate a given client connection

[Alexandre Fromage]

Dear all,

 

A more appropriate subject would have been "Associate an identity to a given
client", but "Identity" has a specific (close) meaning for ZeroMQ.

 

I have a ROUTER and I would like, at application level to associate each
client (DEALER) generated id to an application context. For example,
associate, for the time of the connection,

the ZeroMQ auto-generated connection id to a given user account.

It is in itselft easy to do, but:

each time there is a disconnection/reconnection (may happen a lot) I need to
immediately re-authenticate the client when it reconnects. However, it needs
to happen

before the client resends all its outstanding requests to the server (which
are queued within the DEALER).

Right now, I can only think of two things, either:

-discard all messages which come when the client is not yet re-authenticated
(a bit extreme and consumes bandwidth for nothing).

-modify the Zmq protocol to enforce authentication when connection is
(re)established.

 

I believe I cannot use ZeroMQ identities as my clients have constantly
changing addresses.

 

Do you think any of those possibilities make sense?

Any suggestion?

 

Thank you,

 

Kind regards,

 

Alex

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