User login on a website using Shibboleth without a browser

[William Eubank]

Seems like maybe you are looking for something like CAS offers?  A REST
API?  CAS can do saml2 as well.

https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/protocol/REST-Protocol.html

-W


On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 7:51 AM, Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> * Benito van der Zander <benito at benibela.de> [2018-04-30 23:56]:
> > Everyone who has a Shibboleth needs to post the HTML plz.
>
> You're joking, I hope.
>
> > I found another publicly accessible Shibboleth and the button is
> > <input type="submit" name="confirm" value="Akzeptieren" />. A
> > classic submit button, just be careful not to pick the reset button
>
> What are you trying to do specifically? Script all the IDPs in the
> world (or in Germany)? And why would you limit whatever you're doing
> to the Shibboleth implementation of a SAML IDP, and not to all SAML
> IDPs that conform to the specification?
>
> Are you trying to create a non-browser application and forcing it to
> use the SAML browser-profile? (If so why not use the non-browser SAML
> profile created for that specific purpose, called ECP? The shib wiki
> even has contributed BASH and Python ECP command line clients:
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Contributions)
>
> There are thousands of SAML IDPs in the world (what you probably meant
> when you talk about "Shibboleth" or "Shibboleths") and several hundred
> in Germany alone. The HTML they will generate for differnt web
> browsers to consume is none of your business, really.  And it will
> always vary and in more unexpected ways than what you'll be able to
> script around. So don't do that.
>
> (Also your "I found another publicly accessible Shibboleth" seems to
> suggest you haven't looked to closely, as there are almost 3000 SAML
> easily reachable IDPs in the academic sector in case one wanted to
> study the variances of their login pages -- to the extent that can
> even be done, some may vary the output taking into account who/what is
> asking, making any such endeavors futile.)
>
> -peter
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