David Bear wrote at 2003-1-3 15:10 -0700:
I need to write an external python script to plug into our authentication system. Its a cookie based system. Basically, I open a socket to an auth server, send a cookie to it, if the cookie as a valid one, I get an okay back. If not, I need to send it to an auth page. The auth page is on a different machine. It prompts the user for credentials (id/password) over an https connection. It then checks kerberos for that user and if okay, sends a cookie back to the browser.
In short, I don't need to create a cookie, just grab one, send it over socket, and come back with an okay or not okay. Any recommendations on which authenticaion package to start with? cookie crumbler? Looks like a "User Folder" delegating the check to some external checking service.
There are dozens of different user folders. Almost surely, there is one delegating. It may help to put CookieCrumber in front of your user folder to have cookies fetched and handed to User Folder. Dieter