org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat

Class GenericHeaderAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase

org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator

org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.AbstractGenericHeaderAuthenticator

org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.GenericHeaderAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

MBeanRegistration, org.apache.catalina.Authenticator, org.apache.catalina.Contained, org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle, org.apache.catalina.Valve

public class GenericHeaderAuthenticator
extends org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.AbstractGenericHeaderAuthenticator

JBAS-2283: Provide custom header based authentication support Header Authenticator that deals with userid from the request header Requires two attributes configured on the Tomcat Service - one for the http header denoting the authenticated identity and the other is the SESSION cookie

Since:

Sep 11, 2006

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Anil Saldhana, Stefan Guilhen

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.AbstractGenericHeaderAuthenticator

log

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator

characterEncoding, info, landingPage

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase

AUTH_HEADER_NAME, cache, changeSessionIdOnAuthentication, context, disableProxyCaching, lifecycle, REALM_NAME, securePagesWithPragma, SESSION_ID_BYTES, sm, sso, started

Fields inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

container, controller, domain, mserver, next, oname

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.catalina.Lifecycle

AFTER_START_EVENT, AFTER_STOP_EVENT, BEFORE_START_EVENT, BEFORE_STOP_EVENT, DESTROY_EVENT, INIT_EVENT, PERIODIC_EVENT, START_EVENT, STOP_EVENT

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GenericHeaderAuthenticator()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	authenticate(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, org.apache.catalina.deploy.LoginConfig config)

Methods inherited from class org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.AbstractGenericHeaderAuthenticator

getCookieValue, getHttpHeaderForSSOAuth, getSessionCookie, getSessionCookieForSSOAuth, getUserId, performAuthentication, setHttpHeaderForSSOAuth, setSessionCookieForSSOAuth

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator

forwardToErrorPage, forwardToLoginPage, getCharacterEncoding, getInfo, getLandingPage, matchRequest, restoreRequest, savedRequestURL, saveRequest, setCharacterEncoding, setLandingPage

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase

addLifecycleListener, associate, authenticate, findLifecycleListeners, generateSessionId, getCache, getContainer, getDisableProxyCaching, getSecurePagesWithPragma, invoke, isChangeSessionIdOnAuthentication, login, logout, reauthenticateFromSSO, register, removeLifecycleListener, setCache, setChangeSessionIdOnAuthentication, setContainer, setDisableProxyCaching, setSecurePagesWithPragma, start, stop, unregister

Methods inherited from class org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase

backgroundProcess, createObjectName, event, getContainerName, getController, getDomain, getNext, getObjectName, getParentName, postDeregister, postRegister, preDeregister, preRegister, setController, setNext, setObjectName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GenericHeaderAuthenticator

public GenericHeaderAuthenticator()

Method Detail

authenticate

public boolean authenticate(org.apache.catalina.connector.Request request,
                   javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
                   org.apache.catalina.deploy.LoginConfig config)
                     throws IOException

Overrides:

authenticate in class org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator

Throws:

IOException