Shibboleth Developers

["Cantor, Scott E." <>]

On 5/12/11 3:37 PM, "Jeffrey Eaton" 
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 wrote:
>I tried cloning the RemoteUser login handler, but I can't find a way to
>get the entityID in RemoteUserAuthServlet.  In RemoteUserLoginHandler,
>that's available by doing:
>
>HttpServletHelper.getLoginContext(httpRequest).getRelyingPartyId());
>
>however, after the redirect to the Servlet (which is what is actually
>protected by Apache, so the first place the the REMOTE_USER is
>available), that does not work, since it's a different httpRequest.  I
>don't see any other way to access the SP entityID from there.

LoginContext loginContext = HttpServletHelper.getLoginContext(
        HttpServletHelper.getStorageService(getServletContext()),
        getServletContext(), request);


>Really, I think I want to do this later, after attribute resolution,
>because then I can just look to see if any of the LDAP attributes were
>resolved, then act based on that.

You can't do anything afterwards, that's already after returning control,
you have to mock up a resolution yourself and rely on caching to avoid it
costing you a lot to do it again.

-- Scott