JSP app display and SSO
Hello,
I'm attempting to connect to a JSP/Servlet application running on a
separate server from the portal. I have no problems using URLScraper to
display the app on one of the tabs, what I need to do is a little more
complicated. My two questions are:
1. How can I get the Session, SessionID object to my servlet? I've
used the portal API's in my servlet, and called the servlet through the
URLScraper and through a custom provider using getContent(), but I get
an error referring to the platform.conf file. The path is unknown, and
the object is never instantiated. I intend on pulling out user
information from the Profile object so I can login the user
automatically.
2. How can I keep the serlvet/JSP application HTML confined to a
channel on the portal without it taking over all the browser real
estate?
Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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708778] at [2007-11-25 4:28:31]
John Lukan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm attempting to connect to a JSP/Servlet application running on a
> separate server from the portal. I have no problems using URLScraper to
> display the app on one of the tabs, what I need to do is a little more
> complicated. My two questions are:
>
> 1. How can I get the Session, SessionID object to my servlet? I've
> used the portal API's in my servlet, and called the servlet through the
> URLScraper and through a custom provider using getContent(), but I get
> an error referring to the platform.conf file. The path is unknown, and
> the object is never instantiated. I intend on pulling out user
> information from the Profile object so I can login the user
> automatically.
When using the URLScraperProvider to bring in the content, there is an
attribute on the policy profile page that can be used to determine what
cookies are forwarded to your application. Either add a "*" to this list
(to forward all cookies) or add the name of the iPS cookie that is defined
in the platform.conf file (iPlanetPortalServer by default). This will
cause your application to receive the cookie when the content is scraped.
You can then use the SessionID and Session classes in your application
to get information about the user.
>
> 2. How can I keep the serlvet/JSP application HTML confined to a
> channel on the portal without it taking over all the browser real
> estate?
To do this, all URLs generated by the application would need to refer to the DesktopServlet on the iPS rather than to the application. You can use the DesktopURL class to create these types of URLs. The iPS does not currently have the ability to automatically rewrite those URLs as they pass through the URLScraperProvider.
Tom
>
> Any hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
