UMA and OpenID Connect Plugins for Apache

[David Langenberg]

Yes, agreed. I like the idea of an OID-Connect httpd module, but having to
also run java as a requirement would likely mean not bothering. It would
just be easier to use some PHP & the ShibSP ExternalAuth handler to
accomplish the same thing.

Dave


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> > With regard to the design, I am not an Apache HTTPD guru. I have no
> > interest in wasting any cycles re-inventing Apache httpd interfaces. The
> > Apache plugin is 1/2 the work... we also have to write "oxd" in java,
> > to use the existing OX OpenID Connect and UMA client code. I just want to
> > see a plugin as quickly as possible...
>
> Ok, then the primary issue is that I would not likely accept a hybrid
> implementation.
>
> I suspect that if you create a design where you basically farm out the
> work to a separate system via web services, you will have security and
> efficiency problems, but if you tried to force the overall Apache
> "solution" to include Java (as we did at one time and could easily have
> continued to do), you would find some pushback from many on that
> requirement.
>
> -- Scott
>
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David Langenberg
Identity & Access Management
The University of Chicago
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