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Thursday, September 13, 2007

242. What is realm

See security policy domain. Also, a string, passed as part of an HTTP request during basic authentication, that defines a protection space. The protected resources on a server can be partitioned into a set of protection spaces, each with its own authentication scheme or authorization database or both. In the J2EEserver authentication service, a realm is a complete database of roles, users, and groups that identify valid users of a Web application or a set of Web applications.

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