WS-Fed and WS-Trust support

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Sun Aug 18 00:29:12 EDT 2013


On Aug 17, 2013, at 11:03 PM, "adam_j_bradley" <adam_j_bradley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Sounds easy enough (but the devil is always in the details!). Is it possible
> to add WS-Fed protocol support by writing a custom ProfileHandler only?

Everything is just a profile handler, but that doesn't mean anything useful, that's not materially different than just writing a servlet.

Passive WS Fed is relatively easy to implement, we used to support it in V1.

> Seems too easy! Can I reuse the existing AuthN methods and interface with a
> custom Profile?

Yes, with a web based profile.

> I'd welcome an introduction if you're happy to facilitate, don't want to
> reinvent if I don't have to.

Brent is already on the list.

-- Scott



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