I'm fairly new to CAS so this may be a dumb question but it's a question
I'm having anyway.  We are working on setting things up to enable SSO
for our University's websites.  I'm curious what the recommended
approach to this is.  

 

As I understand it, a site that wants to use SSO needs to redirect the
browser to CAS passing it the gateway=true parameter so CAS can
determine if the browser has a current session and then return a session
ticket to the requesting site if the person is logged in.  Using this
model, it appears that a site will need to redirect every page request
to CAS so the site will be aware of any logins/logouts on other sites
using CAS and act appropriately.  That seems like a lot of overhead and
could be very problematic for things like form submissions.

 

Is this the recommended approach for SSO and keeping individual site
sessions in sync with the browser's CAS session?  Am I missing
something?

Stephen Lynn

 

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