AJAX, Portlets and CAS

[Jason Shao]

On May 16, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Mark McLaren wrote:

> I checked the response I was getting from the AJAX requests using
> Firebug and the requests were being redirected to the CAS login  
> screen.
> I fixed my problem by adding "*.js" to  the CAS filter so that when my
> portlet page loaded an invisible "single sign on" occurs.  As you
> suggest, this appears to be piggy backing on the sso browser  
> session and
> I imagine it is now passing additional cookie information that was not
> there before so that now requests to the backend application actually
> work!  At least I think this is what is happening! :-/

Have you tested in IE? At least in IE6/Win I remember we had to do  
some manual cookie maniputlation on the XMLHttpRequest due to the  
different way IE handles cookie-scoping. I don't know if this is  
still necessary in IE7...

Jason

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Jason Shao
Application Developer
Office of Instructional & Research Technology
Rutgers University
v. 732-445-8726 | f. 732-445-5539 | jayshao at rutgers.edu


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