Stateless Login Handler Stickiness

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 2/6/2013 3:09 PM, Nate Klingenstein wrote:
> Users,
>
> If an IdP uses a stateless login handler like the one developed by OSU, is there a need for any session stickiness at all?
>
> Specifically, it's my understanding that the login/response generation process as a whole requires server-side statefulness(destination SP, etc. persisted in the IdP session) even if the login handler manages authentication state using a client-side state persistence mechanism like cookies.  Is that right, making ~5 minute session stickiness a requirement even in this case?

Typically yes (specifically, the login context is stored locally, not in 
the cookie; the session data is in the cookie).

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