Hi <br><br>I have a use case where we have a thick client which stores the user/passwd for the user. Want to automatically login this user using SAML, basically the user should not be prompted, the application should be to login the user when redirected IdP.<br>
<br>Now with Shibboleth I can possibly use the idpAuthExternal and forward to a servlet which supports HTTP based basic/digest auth. My case is non typical (or is it) since there is no user sitting on a browser who can be shown a login page to collect user/pass. So the questions I have are<br>
<ul><li>Since the spec does not really specify how actual auth happens, is this something I might have problems with when my application wants to use another Idp</li><li>Does SAML support this, from the all the reading I have done it does not prevent it, but am I in someways pushing it?</li>
</ul>Any other suggestions/gotchas that I should watch out for are welcome.<br><br>Thanks<br>Anand<br>