User login on a website using Shibboleth without a browser

[Timo Tunturi]

On 29/04/2018 1.59, Benito van der Zander wrote:
> when you are a user of a website using Shibboleth, the login is 
> straightforward. You click the login button on the website in the 
> browser, are redirected to Shibboleth, enter your login data, and are 
> then redirected back to the webpage.
> 
> But I would like to automate that login without a browser, almost like 
> in a bash script.

FWIW people in our Uni use phantomjs to script Shibboleth IdP -logins to 
various services for monitoring purposes. I have not done any work with 
phantomjs so I cannot give you any more details about that.

Timo Tunturi / Aalto University IT Services