org.eclipse.higgins.saml2idp.server.util
Class ExtractUtil

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.higgins.saml2idp.server.util.ExtractUtil

public class ExtractUtil

extends Object

Method Summary

static String

getUser(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Extracts a username from a request.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getUser

public static String getUser(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                             javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Extracts a username from a request. If one is found, no login forms are displayed, and the user is considered to be authenticated already. This is done by checking for parameters, headers and cookies with a certain name provided in the configuration.

Parameters:

request - The current HttpServletRequest object.

response - The current HttpServletResponse object.

Returns:

The username that was extracted from the request.