[Zope-PAS] Re: authentication via web services

[Miles]

J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> Miles wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone used PAS to authenticate and get properties from a web 
>> service?  We have a requirement for this in a project, but given the 
>> current general state of SOAP support in python, I'm not very clear on 
>> what the best solution might be on this.
>>
>> If anyone has any experience/advice that they're willing to share, I'd 
>> be very grateful.
> 
> Well, if by "web services" you mean SOAP, then I don't know. But the 
> GMailAuthPlugin (which is really just a demonstrator), the Salesforce 
> connector, the OpenID plugin, and the LibertyAuthPlugin could be called 
> using web services. Maybe the CAS plugin counts.

Yes, I did mean SOAP as that seems to be the only way this specific 
service is exposed.  I wasn't aware of those plugins so will take a 
look.  The salesforce plugin looks quite useful, from a cursory glance.

Thanks,

Miles