Hi,

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Stephen More wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, William G. Thompson, Jr.
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Stephen More <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Has anyone worked with integrating CAS with an Adobe Air application ?
>>> Flex applications just work when served from a CAS protected server,
>>> but an Air application does not live on the server, it lives on a
>>> desktop.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts, examples. or lessons learned is appreciated.
>> 
>> CAS is specifically designed for the web and its use outside of that
>> confine is likely to get into interesting situations.  That said, how
>> do you expect the user to authenticate?  Provide credentials directly
>> in the Air app?  Is the Air application launched from the desktop or
>> the browser?
> 
> It seems that Adobe Air is compatible with Android and iOS. So the
> primary idea would be to launch it from a mobile platform. ( fingertop
> ? )

If you are expecting to do CAS authentication, then you're expecting the 
application to be used only when the user has a network connection, right? So 
why not use a mobile-optimized web app?

Rhett

> 
> At this point I don't care how credentials are provided, only that a
> mobile platform would work with CAS. One thought would be to use CAS
> RESTful API, then writing custom Authentication and TicketValidation
> Filters. These are just thoughts at the moment.
> 
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