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Authorization checks when you create a subscription

When a user creates a subscription, authorization checks are required to ensure that the user can receive messages on the specified topics.

A subscription can be created either for a single topic or, by using wildcards in the topic specification, for multiple topics. In both cases an access check is performed whenever a message arrives for the subscription, to ensure that the user has permission to access the specific message topic. In addition, when a subscription is created for a single topic an access check is performed when the subscriber session is created.

A non-durable subscription exists for the duration of the subscriber, the subscription stops when the subscriber closes. A durable subscription continues to exist after the subscriber closes; it continues to collect messages on the relevant topic or topics while no subscriber is attached and the subscriber can reactivate the subscription and collect all the messages. A durable subscription can only be reactivated by the user that created it. This allows authorization permissions of the user to be checked when messages are saved while the subscription is inactive.

Related tasks
Learning about bus destinations
Administering messaging security
Administering durable subscriptions
Related reference
Topic names and use of wildcard characters in topic expressions

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Timestamp icon Last updated: 26 February 2009
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