On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Rhett Sutphin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

No not really, when the user does have a network connection they could
sync ( either upload or download ) data to/from the net to the mobile
device. The app could stand alone without CAS.


>
>>
>> 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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