> On Feb 8, 2016, at 8:14 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Our current Production Setup
> 
> For CAS3.x.x having SSL was not required to support Single Sign On. This was 
> perfect as we have Reverse Proxy Servers fronting our Application Server farm 
> and it took care of providing all TLS for our user facing interface. All 
> handshake between the reverse-proxy server and JBOSS/ IBM WAS server farm was 
> “as if” no SSL was in place. This also helped us immensely in terms of 
> performance, as all SSL encryption/decryption was handled on our Reverse 
> Proxy Servers. And helped cut cost for our clients in terms of maintaining 
> and purchasing certificates to bare essential.
> 

All of that still true in CAS4.
>  
> 
> Now, we are trying to work with CAS4
> 
> We found out that it requires HTTPS or else Single Sign On just won’t work.
> 

HTTPS is always required by default. How you satisfy that requirement remains 
the same across all CAS versions. There are not considerations on the CAS side 
to dictate a particular form of container configuration.

> Can you help us understand as to how do we make this new solution work within 
> our production sites?
> 
> 1.            Will this not force us to have certificates deployed on each 
> and every Application Server? How do we make our clients understand the cost 
> benefit of doing so when having Reverse Proxy Fronting was already taking 
> care of this?
> 
> 2.            What happens where the server farms are running behind 3-Zone 
> architecture?
> 
> 3.            What would be performance hit on Application Server when during 
> peak load the server would also have to deal with TLS over and above the work 
> that it is currently supposed to be handling?
> 
>  
> 
> Can we turn off this HTTPS requirement to support SSO with CAS4? If so can 
> you help us as to where to begin.
> 

You can enable SSO without HTTPS. This is of course a bad idea. 
> 
> Our situation has become very urgent, so we don't mind if we have to write 
> Java code and change XML configuration.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
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