Concerning setup of External Auth

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/18/12 2:08 PM, "Brewer, Edward L" <lee.brewer at Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:

>To all,
> 
>I currently have a 2.3.6 IdP running on Linux under JBOSS 5.1.  It
>currently is configured to perform user/password using LDAP  (configured
>as described in shibboleth documentation using JAAS).  This works well.
>I have a request to include
> an External Auth login provider.  A developer has created a servlet to
>perform this authentication and has deployed the code in the same
>instance as our IdP.  We have also configured the handler.xml with the
>following entry
>  
><!--  Username/password login handler -->
>  <ph:LoginHandler xsi:type="ph:ExternalAuthn"
>externalAuthnPath="https://vushib-idpguest-test.vanderbilt.edu/vushib/oaut
>h/servlet/shibLogin">

I was under the impression the external path had to be a local path to a
resource in the IdP's context.

The doc says:
 context-relative path to the Filter, Servlet, or JSP used to interact
with the external authentication system

Doesn't look like that's a URL to some other system.

-- Scott