Application agents

To use Raven authentication on a webserver you need to implement a 'Application Agent'. This could be built-in to a web application (such as a CGI script or a PHP program), or it could be an 'Authentication handler' for the webserver that you are using.

Application Agents are available for various platforms and with varying levels of support.

Suported by the Computing Service

• Apache authentication module (for Apache 1 and Apache 2)

Provided by the Computing Service but not directly supported

• Ucam-WebAuth-AA Perl module
• PHP library
• Raven Java Toolkit

Provided by others

• Tomcat authenticator and JAAS implimentation
• Tomcat Valve
• Ruby CGI scripts