Hi Misagh,

Thanks for your reply.

How can we enable SSO without HTTPS?


On Monday, February 8, 2016 at 12:20:57 PM UTC-5, Misagh Moayyed wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2016, at 8:14 PM, Robert <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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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