Session management involves the creation or definition of session identifiers on login, the setting of inactivity timeouts, session expiration, and session invalidation on logout; also, it may extend to authorization checks depending on the user's privileges, as the session ID must be linked to the user.
Session management mechanisms
Sessions based on platform authentication
When platform authentication is used, the most common approach used is to work with the header that is already included, containing the credentials, or challenge the response as the identifier for a user's session, and to manage session expiration and logout through the application's logic; although, as stated previously, it's...
