Custom authentication web flow

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/16/15, 10:12 AM, "dev on behalf of Nanda Kumar" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of NKK at FISCHERINTERNATIONAL.COM> wrote:



>Hello,
>   I believe with external authentication flow , the normal shibboleth login page will be displayed for the user to log in and authentication will be handled by external code.

No, that's not correct. There is no login page provided by the IdP in such a case.

>If we have to show a custom login page with external authentication,
> wouldn’t it be better to write a custom authentication web flow?

That's purely a design decision.

>  Can you please advise on the effort to write a custom authentication web flow?

I can't tell somebody else how much work it is to do something. If you don't know Spring Web Flow, then you will have a learning curve, and there are lot of subtleties involving error handling and how we use the technology that would be very unclear to anybody.

>  Is there any documentation available on writing custom authentication flows for the IdP?

No.

-- Scott