Redirect to Service with POST

[Paul Harrison]

Hi,

I have several questions on this topic ;-) http://tp.its.yale.edu/ 
pipermail/cas/2006-July/003030.html

I have looked at the patch http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/ 
CAS-355 that adds some POST functionality to CAS and am wondering

1. does this solution actually work for the case where the  
originating request that causes the authentication is itself a POST -  
i.e. are all of the original POST variables resent to the target  
service?

2. Are the aims of point 1 achievable anyway on the CASE server side  
without resorting to Javascript in responses? I am guessing not as  
HTTP redirects  always need to be a GET as per the protocol  
specification.

3. Has anyone given any thought to writing a CAS client that can  
intercept POST requests, remember the variables and then rePOST when  
the corresponding redirected GET is received from the CAS server?

Paul.

Paul Harrison
ESO Garching
www.eso.org