Inter-application access

[Phil Stone]

Hello,

I have been tasked with CAS-ifying a suite of cooperating web 
applications.  I started out by wrapping CAS around one of the web apps, 
and that is working quite well (I'm using the JA-SIG Java client).

However, other web apps in the suite need to access this CAS-ified app. 
via http requests.  Is this even possible?  How can a CAS-wrapped web 
app. authenticate an external one sending it requests, as they are in 
two separate contexts?  I don't think proxying applies in this situation 
(please correct me if I'm wrong).  I guess the question boils down to 
this:  can distinct web apps share a common authentication and conduct 
trusted http transactions with each other?


Phil Stone
UC Davis