GetSSOTokenUsingWebSecurityAgentCredentials

Returns an external authentication token generated from logon credentials that have been validated by a security agent such as SiteMinder. You use an ASP Request object to pass the logon credentials from the security agent.

Tip:

You can log on a user by passing the returned token to SetLogonInfoSSO. You can check whether Web security agent support is enabled with IsWebSecurityAgentEnabled.

Syntax

<HFMwManageApplications>.GetSSOTokenUsingWebSecurityAgent
Credentials bstrCluster, varRequest, pvarToken

Argument

Description

bstrCluster

The name of the server cluster on which the user is being validated.

Input argument. String subtype.

varRequest

An ASP Response object that includes the HTTP header from the security agent. The HTTP header must contain logon credentials validated by the security agent.

Input argument.

pvarToken

Returns the external authentication token.

If the Response object passed to varRequestHTTP does not contain a username that the security agent has validated, no token is returned.

Output argument.