Off the top of my head, the simplest way would be if they were chained, but
then you would be limited to only looking up the chain (i.e. C -> B -> A).
If you try and look at more than one it becomes too complicated.



On Nov 29, 2007 11:25 AM, Christopher Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Scott,
>
> > They don't need proxying.  Let's suppose the following exists:
> >
> > Application A -> Utilizes CAS A
> > Application B -> Utilizes CAS B
> >
> > If a user attempts to access Application A, he (or she) will be
> > redirected
> > to CAS A to authenticate and then (assuming success) sent back to
> > Application A.
>
> Ok, this sounds good, and clarifies things up a bit.  My current dilemma
> is
> that I actually have several other CAS systems they might have signed on
> to.
> I have an institutional one (CAS A), a departmental one (CAS B), and a
> special applications one (CAS C).
>
> Now, the person may have used an application (A, B, or C) and been
> authenticated against any of these.  They now come to use application D
> which uses my CAS D implementation - what's the best way of querying these
> other services to see if they are already authenticated with them?
>
> Wrt to the gateway feature - if I enable this I should be able to
> interrogate the list of cas gateway cookies this browser has, then
> identify
> which CAS server I should forward to (with return to my service)?
>
> Chris
>
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