CASServiceURL

Minimum version required

The features described on this page require EZproxy 5.1a GA or later.

Overview

CASServiceURL is a position-dependent directive that interacts with other CASServiceURL directives. Typical placement is toward the top of config.txt.

Purpose

CASServiceURL is used to configure EZproxy to act as a Central Authentication Service (CAS) server, allowing other CAS client applications to take advantage of EZproxy for user authentication. (As of July 2010, OCLC will no longer support the functionality where EZproxy acts as a CAS server.)

The syntax for CASServiceURL is:

CASServiceURL [-Anonymous] WildcardServiceURL


where -Anonymous is an optional parameter to indicate that EZproxy should send "anonymous" instead of the true username and WildcardServiceURL is a wildcard URL to match against the CAS client's service URL. The wildcard URL is case-insensitive and may use the wildcard ? to match any single character and * to match 0 or more characters. Sample use:

CASServiceURL http://casapp.yourlib.org/*


URLs for client

In your CAS client application, you will need to set a login URL and either a validate (CAS 1.x) or service validate (CAS 2.x) URL. To form the required URLs, use these patterns:

http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/cas/login
http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/cas/validate
http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/cas/serviceValidate


replacing ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048 with your server's hostname and port.