We are in the process of developing a solution for streaming  
copyrighted content to students at NAU. In short, we want FIMS to use  
CAS to determine a user's eligibility to view the content (e.g.  
students, faculty and staff associated with a given course for a given  
semester). Has anyone already done something like this, and if so  
would they be willing to share how it works.

Before everyone tells me that CAS is for http/https and that plugins  
don't go through that route, the potential scenario I had in mind is  
one where the page with the SWF player is itself behind CAS  
authentication (to generate the proxy id in the session), the page is  
dynamically generated and the URL to the FIMS content embeds the proxy  
id, the FIMS uses ActionScript to send an HTTP POST request to the CAS  
server, the server returns XML data and the ActionScript parses the  
data to determine success/failure. But if there's a smarter way of  
doing this I'm all ears.

Thanks, and if I should have submitted this to the dev mailing list I  
apologize in advance.
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