[Http-webtest-general] Re: Webtest questions on Active Perl and Siteminder

[Amit K. <ak...@ho...>]

Siteminder is a third party authentication mechanism for Web Applications 
(also called a Single Sign On mechanism).  From what I know of one 
implementation of Siteminder, the authentication information is stored in a 
cookie which is passed to the WebApplication at every request.

To answer the original question, yes I have found that Webtest does work 
with Siteminder. How easy is it? It will depend on the authenticaion method 
used. The easiest is basic authentication. It is possible to replicate SSL 
based authentication as well (Note: I did have to install the SSL modules 
for this instance).

This is what I would recommend in case Siteminder is using cookies and basic 
authentication. You should use a HTTP monitoring tool to see the HTTP 
requests to and from the client and Siteminder to determine what exactly is 
being passed. (Proxymonitron is an good tool for this 
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.shtml). Once you know what exactly 
is being passed between the browser and Siteminder, it shouldn't be too 
difficult to replicate the login process in HTTP::Webtest. Once you have 
done that, you should save the cookie and then use the cookie for your other 
tests.

HTH,
Amit

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>    1. Re: Webtest questions on Active Perl and
>        Siteminder (Ilya Martynov)
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>Message: 1
>To: "Philip Chan" <ph...@i-...>
>Cc: <htt...@li...>
>Subject: Re: [Http-webtest-general] Webtest questions on Active Perl and
>  Siteminder
>From: Ilya Martynov <il...@ip...>
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:36:36 +0400
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> >>>>> "PC" == Philip Chan <ph...@i-...> writes:
>
>PC> Hello all,
>
>Hi,
>
>PC> This is my first post to this webtest mailing list and here I got
>PC> a couple questions to start with,
>
>PC> 1. To the latest version of webtest, is there any ready-to-install
>PC> ppm package available for Active Perl?
>
>I haven't heard about such but last time I checked it was possible to
>install HTTP::WebTest on Win32 from CPAN if you get nmake.exe (it
>should be freely available from ftp.microsoft.com).
>
>You can always built your own PPM :)
>
>     http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=113448
>
>PC> 2. Anyone ever got webtest to work with Siteminder? is it gonna be
>PC> as straight forward as an ordinary login form to due with?
>
>What is Siteminder?
>
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>Ilya Martynov,  il...@ip...
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