Tag: CSV

ForgeRock OpenIG 4 – Getting Credentials From File Datastore

If we’ve just moved ahead of ‘Getting Started with OpenIG 4‘, the following screen-cast might of some interest. In fact, this is a remake of a video that’s posted here, which was based on now older version of ForgeRock OpenIG.

So what’s in the video here? We’ve a CSV file with some User details. A user tries to access a URI, which hits OpenIG, who by using some Route Configuration files, looks up User Credentials from the CSV file and posts it to the HTTP Server, to get a User Profile Page (Post Authentication Landing Page) in return. So the Client, without having to go through the inconvenience of supplying his/her User Credentials, gets the Post Authentication Landing Page from the HTTP Server. See, if my attempt to capture the flow below makes sense.

ForgeRock OpenIG 4 - Getting Credentials from File Datastore

If that didn’t make your life easy, hopefully the demonstration in the video will. Enjoy!

Related Documentation/ Video:
– ForgeRock OpenIG Documentation
– ForgeRock OpenIG 3.x – Getting Credentials from File Datastore

ForgeRock OpenIG: Getting Credentials From File Data Source

If you’ve not heard of ForgeRock OpenIG or haven’t gone through its Installation & Configuration procedure, I’d request you to either view my earlier post on ForgeRock OpenIG Installation & Configuration or read through the ‘Getting Started on OpenIG’ guide.This post picks up from there…

This update is based on the official ForgeRock documentation section here. The intent is only to give a demonstration of what is already written in there.

The screen-cast embedded at the end of this post, demonstrates how ForgeRock OpenIG intercepts a HTTP GET request from a client, process the request based on filter, handlers & conditions defined in its configuration files, redirect the HTTP GET request either as it is, or replacing it with other HTTP methods like POST to a HTTP server and then redirect the response that HTTP Server gives back to the client who originally invoked the request. Now, that was probably one of the lengthiest sentences, you would ever encounter. They say, picture speak a thousand words, so I’ll have you look at the following illustration, which by and large, summarizes a mouthful of words that I mentioned above:

You’re not supposed to understand the whole story by looking at the illustration above. For you to go get a clear picture of what I’m trying to convey, I’ve the following video log:

Enjoy!