Re: [Portletbridge-users] PortletBridge Authentication Howto

[Jamie M. <jam...@gm...>]

Hi Neil,

Unfortunately it hasn't been written to do automatic authentication
(http basic / digest, form)... the proxy authentication is for proxies
rather than the site itself... You'd need to dig into code to get it
to authenticate. I should be relatively easy to do but what held me
back so far is:

- which username / password should be used, most apps would want you
to use credentials related to the user that is currently logged in but
there isn't a standardized way to get hold of those credentials. In
fact, most apps wouldn't even have the credentials because passwords
are normally stored as hashes rather than the actual password.

- form based authentication is not standardized... that said, it
wouldn't be too difficult to cater for the common cases e.g.
j_username, j_password, etc.

The code to look at is: DefaultHttpClientTemplate

regards,
Jamie.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Neil Longmuir<nei...@sc...> wrote:
> all,
>
> Wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.
>
>  Basically, I deployed the portlet on webspace(liferay)/glassfish no problem
> and it works great for non-authenticated websites. For authenticated
> websites however, I've tried a myriad of configurations (see below) to no
> avail.
>
>
>
>
>
> In the configuration page for the portletbridge
> http://www.portletbridge.org/configuration.html, there are details wrt
> variables for straight authentication(mode [none, basic ..], username,
> password), however I can't find where to set these.
>
> wondering if it's in a config file or I'm completely missing something.
>
> Best Regards
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