Custom authentication and extending the login.jsp element.

[PARDEE, MARTIN (MARTIN)]

Thanks Paul.  I'll re-orient and try again.


Apologies to all.


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From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Hethmon
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:54 PM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: Custom authentication and extending the login.jsp element.

Login.jsp does nothing.

It is simply an html form that collects a login ID and password that get submitted to the authentication servlet. The servlet is where all the magic happens.

As Scott has mentioned, you are essentially looking into the private parts. Shib documents Login Handlers. The UsernamePassword login handler is one of them and includes a page called login.jsp that it uses in its own private and proprietary way to collect the information it deems important and necessary in order to authenticate a user.

Now, you can certainly much with that as much as you want, you have all the code. But to do it right and do anything beyond a trivial implementation, you will have to build a full Login Handler:

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPDevExtLoginHandler


Paul

On 8/31/12 1:39 PM, "PARDEE, MARTIN  (MARTIN)" <mlp at research.att.com>
wrote:

>In order to extend it, I need some changes.  From my point of view, I'm 
>just trying to get to the details of an answer that was previously given:
> "replace the login.jsp with one of your own design".
>
>In order to do that, I need to know how login.jsp works. I can only 
>understand the parts I can see. Something else is happening behind the 
>scenes.
>

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