There has been some discussions on the developer mail list about a RESTful API for CAS: http://www.nabble.com/RESTful-CAS-API-tp16856189p16868582.html
Scotty B (sorry for the nickname Scott ^^;) can tell you more about it! Andrew R Feller, Analyst University Information Systems 200 Fred Frey Building Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA, 70803 (225) 578-3737 (Office) (225) 578-6400 (Fax) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Unai Rodriguez Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:45 PM To: Yale CAS mailing list Subject: RE: Is there a way of invoking CAS through APIs orsimilar? Thank you so much, Stefan. Would you be able to provide something more detailed? cheers, unai On Fri, 9 May 2008 09:09:19 +0200, Bocken Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Rodriguez, > > A while ago I tried to do this with a cookie (and succeeded in doing so). > I've asked this question to the mailing list and you can find the answer > here: > http://tp.its.yale.edu/pipermail/cas/2008-March/007789.html > > This was the answer of Scott > > If you are passing a token via an HttpServletRequest (either as a cookie > or > some request parameter), you should extend the > AbstractNonInteractiveLoginAction to construct a credentials object from > the > request parameter without prompting the user for anything (this is what > the > X.509 and SPNEGO code does). You'll then create an AuthenticationHandler > that can do stuff with that token (i.e. authenticate it) and a > CredentialsToPrincipalResolver that can find the principal for that token. > Wire them all up in the appropriate places (I make that sound so easy > don't > I? ;-)) and you should be good to go. > > -Scott > > Regards, > > Stefan > > > > From: Unai Rodriguez > Sent: Fri 09-May-08 8:47 > To: cas > Subject: Is there a way of invoking CAS through APIs or similar? > > > Dear All, > > I am thinking of modifying the CAS login page to allow calls to URLs like > this: > > https://mycasname/cas/login?user=xxxx&pass+yyyy > > have CAS automatically try to login using the given parameters. > > Is there something similar already built-in? > > I am doing this for monitoring/testing purposes (i.e. every minute or so I > will have a script login in automatically to make sure CAS is fine). > > thanksssssssssss, > unai > > _______________________________________________ > Yale CAS mailing list > [email protected] > http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas _______________________________________________ Yale CAS mailing list [email protected] http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas _______________________________________________ Yale CAS mailing list [email protected] http://tp.its.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/cas
