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[Christopher Bongaarts <>]

Cantor, Scott E. wrote:
> > I have a configuration item that I want to set once (as an element in
> > the <LoginHandler> declaration in handler.xml), but need to retrieve the
> > value from both the LoginHandler and the AuthServlet.  What would be the
> > best way to approach this?
>
> Do you need it in the handler or just the servlet? I put my settings in as 
> servlet init-params because I had to modify web.xml for a variety of reasons 
> anyway.

I need it in both - I'm checking the value (an AuthnContext) against the 
requestedAuthenticationMethods in the LoginHandler in order to determine 
to which of two RemoteUser servlet endpoints to redirect to, and I need 
it in the servlet to set the AUTHENTICATION_METHOD_KEY attribute on the 
way out.

Getting the configuration setting in the LoginHandler is easy, but I'm 
not sure how best to access it (or arrange to have it passed along).

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