[Catalyst] Catalyst and Shibboleth authentication

[Mike Whitaker]

On 14 Mar 2008, at 19:00, Kirby Krueger wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm writing a new web application, and have decided to jump into  
> Catalyst (because I am smart.)
>
> One thing that Catalyst seems to do well is have a good mechanism  
> for plugging in standard approaches to things.  Here at the  
> University of Washington, we use a project called 'Shibboleth' for  
> authentication: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

I dunno exactly what Shibboleth does, but if the notes on dealing  
with external single sign on (http://catwiki.toeat.com/gettingstarted/ 
tutorialsandhowtos/sso_authentication) are any help, steal away :)  
(JayK did sanity check them for me, and He Should Know :) )
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