Crowd and Coldfusion

[Barry Britnell]

I would like to authenticate some in-house ColdFusion applications with Crowd. Does anyone have any guidance? Also, is SSO possible in this setup? Thanks in advance.

[Jim Bethancourt]

You can try the REST-based APIs or the SOAP based APIs, whichever you're most comfortable with -- http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWDDEV/Using+the+Crowd+Remote+API

I have been able to get SSO working with vBulletin, though it was a learning process for me. SSO is definitely do-able. Although it is a little bit more work, it will be much appreciated by your users. You'll need to authenticate your ColdFusion application first, and then authenticate the logged in user based on the session cookie created by Crowd.

Not sure if it will help a great deal, but I started with and modified the code from

http://code.google.com/p/zym/source/browse/trunk/incubator/library/Zym/Service/Atlassian/Crowd.php

and

http://code.google.com/p/zym/source/browse/trunk/incubator/library/Zym/Service/Atlassian/Crowd.php

when I wrote the integration I had done. Hopefully it will help get you started, even though it's in PHP.

Cheers,

Jim