Adobe Connect and Shibboleth

[Lukas Hämmerle]

Hello

We have been using Adobe Connect (formerly known as Breeze) for a few
years with Shibboleth. The approach we have used is pretty much the same
as was documented by our Czech colleagues [1].

Basically, we protect a web page with shib and the web page then uses
the Adobe Connect XML API to add and authenticate users.

However, we have been wondering: Has anybody tried to shibbolize Adobe
Connect directly (without using the API) via the Adobe Connect Header
Authentication [2] and maybe a servlet filter that sets additional headers?

We could imagine that this approach would be simpler and straight
forward, possibly setting more attributes than just the userID required
for authentication.

Kind Regards
Lukas


[1] Shibboleth authentication for Adobe Connect Pro
http://www.cesnet.cz/doc/techzpravy/2009/shibb-auth-adobe-connect-pro/shibb-auth-adobe-connect-pro.pdf

[2] Log in using HTTP header authentication
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/connect/8.0/webservices/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a171ddf77-7ff5_SP1.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d11a171ddf77-7fe4_SP1

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