The SCTCanceller

The STS ships with a single implementation of the TokenCanceller interface, namely the SCTCanceller. The SCTCanceller is used to cancel a token known as a SecurityContextToken, that is defined in the WS-SecureConversation specification. The SCTProvider and the SCTValidator were covered previously. A SecurityContextToken essentially consists of a String Identifier which is associated with a particular secret key. The SCTCanceller can cancel a SecurityContextToken in either of the following namespaces:

• http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/sc/
• http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/200512

Recall that the SCTValidator validates a received SecurityContextToken by checking to see whether it is stored in the cache. Therefore it is a requirement to configure a cache for the STS if you want to validate SecurityContextTokens. The same applies for the SCTCanceller. A received SecurityContextToken is successfully cancelled only if it is stored in the cache and is removed from the cache without any errors. This generally implies that the STS must have previously issued the SecurityContextToken and stored it in the cache, unless the STS is sharing a distributed cache with other STS instances.