Re: Is there a way of invoking CAS through APIs orsimilar?

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!

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-----Original Message-----
From: cas-bounces@... [mailto:cas-bounces@...]
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 <Stefan.Bocken@...>
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
>
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