TannerRitchie Web Applications

Advanced Web Application Development in the GTHA

Month: October 2014

  • Shibboleth (2.5), Apache 2.4 and breaking Apache Basic Auth

    Shibboleth (2.5), Apache 2.4 and breaking Apache Basic Auth

    Shibboleth (Shib2) is widely used as an authentication method for UK universities to academic resources. For various reasons Shibboleth tends to be  cumbersome to manage – at least compared with EZProxy, which is the standard method of remote authentication used by virtually all other parts of the world, and which requires almost zero work on…