Shibboleth IDP Upgrade: v2 to v3 and Existing Login and Profile Handlers

[Jeremy Torres]

And to be more specific, the implementation
of  ExternalAuthentication.start/finishAuthentication casts the object
retrieved from the session to an ExternalAuthentication and invokes
doStart/doFinish, which throw "not implemented" exceptions.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 6:31 PM Jeremy Torres <jeremy.torres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Scott.  So an ExternalAuthentication is the way to go for what I
> need...
>
> I'm currently looking at version 3.3.3. of Shibolleth IDP.  Based on
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/ExternalAuthnConfiguration,
> it's recommended to use ExternalAuthentication.
>
> I'm looking
> at: ./idp-authn-api/src/main/java/net/shibboleth/idp/authn/ExternalAuthentication.java
> and there appears to be "Not implemented" exception thrown that would occur
> if I were to call ExternalAuthentication.startExternalAuthentication and
> ExternalAuthentication.finishExternalAuthentication
>
> Can you elaborate?  Thank you.
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 6:08 PM Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> > I would like to utilize the default "password" flow; however, I need
>> check for
>> > the existence of a request parameter to check an backend service
>> _before_ the
>> > login page would be presented.  Is this possible with a custom
>> "action", or
>> > would this require a custom login flow?
>>
>> Just use External, that's what it's for.
>>
>> -- Scott
>>
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