CASMiddleware

For anyone not familiar with it, CAS is an open source single-sign on service. It's implemented in Java, but I have stumbled across a CAS server implemented in Python. (Which I haven't tried yet.)

Anyway, I've been running my own CAS server for a while now (which provides SSO service for all the webapps on my server). I actually have my own Python CAS client and WSGI middleware that I've been using for years. In addition to a number of my Python webapps, I've successfully used it to CASsify MoinMoin. I'm sure I could get it to work with Trac too, but that would probably annoy my Trac users. (It works with any app that simply relies on REMOTE_USER.)

casclient and casmiddleware were part of of my 'py-lib' project (if anyone remembers that). Though 'py-lib' was never really a project. It was more like a directory of Python modules I had written for myself — a place to incubate early Python projects (flup's fcgi.py started there, along with the other pre-1.0 flup modules).

But when I moved beyond Subversion, py-lib was abandoned.

I was reminded of the fact that my Python CAS stuff was never really released due to all the work-related CAS work I've been doing lately. JA-SIG has their own Python CAS code, but it seems to be more geared toward CGI. I'm sure a few of the various Python authentication frameworks out there have a CAS module. But anyway, I just wanted to get the ball rolling and get my own CASMiddleware 'out there' — in case anyone else finds it useful.

It's pretty small and only depends on Beaker.

For now, it's only available at my Hg repo. I'll send it over to PyPI when I get the chance. (Hah! I should have searched PyPI first, so many hits for 'CAS'. Oh well...)

casmiddleware