[Building Sakai] Portal login with webservices

[Carl Hall]

Does that mean to just document the code well of how the web service is
used? Is there any Confluence page I should update?


On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> Open a Jira, add a patch and assign it to me and I'll commit it.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 05/08/2011, at 11:21 AM, Carl Hall wrote:
>
> We have reinstated the web service and would like to contribute
> documentation to support. Where should I put that?
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Two ways forward with this:
>>
>> 1. you can reinstate the SakaiPortalLogin.jws
>> 2. you can use getSessionForUser(String sessionid, String eid) if you have
>> an admin session established, and it will return a session for the given
>> user.
>>
>> If 2 doesn't do what you need, we can reinstate SakaiPortalLogin if it can
>> get some documentation.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 09/07/2011, at 5:27 AM, Carl Hall wrote:
>>
>> > Prior to 2.8, there was SakaiPortalLogin.jws which allowed a user to
>> login with their user ID and a shared portal secret. This jws file has been
>> archived now but I'm not seeing a clear path for continuing the previous
>> action. In my case, there's an external application that is calling into
>> Sakai for more information and is not privy to the user's password. Is there
>> a suggested path to move from the shared portal secret used in
>> SakaiPortalLogin.jws to SakaiLogin.jws?
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