On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Oliver Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, all. > > I'm working on a custom authentication provider, following the example in > Chapter 18 of the manual. > > I'm trying to authenticate using a one-time URL looking something like > this: > > https://hostname/guacamole?sessionkey=HardToGuessValue > > It seems, from the definition of the Credentials object, that I should be > able to use code like this: > > HttpServletRequest request = credentials.getRequest(); > String sessionkey = request.getParameter("sessionkey"); > > But, getParameter(), in this context, returns a null string. > getParameterMap() returns an empty dictionary object. I'm obviously > missing something. What's the right way to get URL parameters into a custom > authentication provider? > > That's the right way - but try: https://hostname/guacamole/#/?sessionkey=HardToGuessValue I think you're just running into differences in the way that AngularJS handles query parameters. It's ultimately the client-side JavaScript which grabs the parameters from the URL and forwards them along with the auth attempt that occurs whenever a page is visited. - Mike
