Re: [Portletbridge-users] Portlet Bridge Question

[Neil L. <nei...@sc...>]

Jamie, 

I got to thinking over the weekend about the limitations of the portlet that you informed about ....so I configured my squid server to auto authenticate (via login=user:password) to the site I want (my internal Nagios server) and configured squid to prompt for authentication (via openldap) 

When hitting squid with a browser, it prompts me for authentication and all is well, I'm forwarded to the Nagios home page 

When hitting squid with the portletBridge however, I receive; 








from the following config 










any ideas? is this the way proxy auth should be configured 




Regards and thanks 




Neil 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie McCrindle" <dk...@us...> 
To: "Neil Longmuir" <nei...@sc...> 
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 5:00:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: Portlet Bridge Question 

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 9:16 PM, Neil Longmuir<nei...@sc...> wrote: 
> Jamie, 
> 
> I realize your not support for this portlet but I can't find anything out 
> there wrt config on this portlet. 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. 
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> 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 
> 
> Neil Longmuir 
> nei...@sc... 
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