Re: Authentication handler using LDAP

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Hall
Ahh, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying that. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:04, Ian Boston wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2009, at 20:50, Carl Hall wrote: > >>  am implementing LoginModulePlugin but don't quite understand what >> you mean by not implementing the login protocol. > > > Ahh sorry,

Re: Authentication handler using LDAP

2009-07-30 Thread Ian Boston
On 30 Jul 2009, at 20:50, Carl Hall wrote: am implementing LoginModulePlugin but don't quite understand what you mean by not implementing the login protocol. Ahh sorry, the browser might send a WWW-Authenticate header ... that would be the http basic auth "protocol" for which there is a

Re: Authentication handler using LDAP

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Hall
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:13, Ian Boston wrote: > For just the AuthN part I think you need to implement the LoginModulePlugin > rather than implementing the login protocol (eg Httpbasic, form etc). I am implementing LoginModulePlugin but don't quite understand what you mean by not implementing th

Re: Authentication handler using LDAP

2009-07-30 Thread Ian Boston
For just the AuthN part I think you need to implement the LoginModulePlugin rather than implementing the login protocol (eg Httpbasic, form etc). So LoginModulePlugin.canHandle(credentials) should return true for credentials that have some hope of being authenticated agains LDAP. and Logi