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QlikView Server and Publisher

By : Stephen Redmond
Book Image

QlikView Server and Publisher

By: Stephen Redmond

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Server and Publisher
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

QlikView ticket authentication


QlikView has had a Custom Ticket Exchange (CTE) mechanism since Version 9. Prior to Version 11, this mechanism was run by executing a COM call on the QlikView Server and retrieving a time-limited ticket. By attaching the ticket to the URL used to open a document, it identified the user to QlikView Server. There was a limitation in that the ticket could only authenticate a user to one document (using the qvajaxzfc/opendoc.htm page).

Since Version 11.0, a new mechanism has been introduced whereby, a ticket is obtained by making a web service call to the QlikView Server. This ticket can now be used to authenticate the user not to individual files but to AccessPoint.

The use case would be that a trusted server would authenticate the user (for example, via LDAP, Oracle SSO, and so on), make a request to the QlikView Web Server, obtain a ticket, and then redirect the user to the QlikView Web Server with the ticket encoded in the URL.

The trust mechanism is simply based...