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Authentication and Web Resource Authorization of Web Services Clients

This document serves the following purposes:

• Web services security basics
• How to secure a new web service in Pentaho
• How existing and new web services will be secured in the future

Background

The ultimate destination of resources provided by the Pentaho BI Server is your users. Those resources can be consumed directly using a web browser or indirectly using web services. In the former case, the user has explicitly requested the resource. In the latter case, code has requested the resource (on behalf of the user).

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