Can I use Shibboleth SP on tomcat?

Peter Schober peter.schober at univie.ac.at
Mon Jul 22 09:44:09 EDT 2013


* Saurabh Tyagi <saurabh.tyagi at thepsi.com> [2013-07-22 14:30]:
> Is it possible to use Shibboleth SP on tomcat directly?

With the help of the documentation you should be able to answer this
for yourself within seconds, and without involving others.

> Currently I use apache to load SP module and the after auth from IdP
> ,Sp fwd the request to tomcat.

That could mean many things but tunnelling requests from httpd to
Tomcat via AJP as documented is the recommended and supported (from
this community) way, yes.

> Is it any how possible to bypass Apache and configure the tomcat to
> do the all Apache tasks.

Bypassing Apache httpd includes bypassing the Shibboleth SP
completely. Not sure what you want from this group then.
Note that so far you have given no reasons for wanting to do away with
Shibboleth other than:

* Saurabh Tyagi <saurabh.tyagi at thepsi.com> [2013-07-22 15:17]:
> I am looking for a solution where I don't need to install any other
> software other then Tomcat that I am alreay using.

You can stop looking. Tomcat does not implement any SAML profiles (and
that would be a question for the Tomcat community, anyway).
Whatever SAML implementation you'll end up using, it will be "other
software" which needs to be installed and configured and maintained
etc.
-peter


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