Custon data connector to create attributes from http headers or Apache env variables

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 4/18/2013 11:26 AM, Wessel, Keith William wrote:
> Has anyone created a custom data connector that could bring in
> attributes from the environment or http headers?
>
> On the surface, it doesn't sound difficult to do, but I'm somewhat
> confident that, since I see nothing from a web search about it, there
> might be a good reason that it hasn't been done.

I can't think of any reasons why it couldn't work, assuming 
dataconnectors have access to the httprequest object.

The closest I've come was when we were using our local SSO in front of 
Shib.  I made a custom LoginHandler based on RemoteUserLoginHandler that 
used data from our SSO (exposed via the request's AUTH_TYPE) to set the 
authentication method.  Nothing on the attribute resolver side, though.

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