https://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx.aspxen-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Debug Build: 40407.4157)https://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx.aspxSat, 01 Jun 2019 19:53:43 GMT51c8af77-2ecd-4ae7-b5f5-4793798b888c:15Troy Wolbrinkhttps://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx/comments.aspxCurrent revision posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Troy Wolbrink on 6/1/2019 7:53:43 PM<br /> <h2>Can I add authentication for web users to something other than The Key (GCX)?</h2> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Out-of-the-box</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">The</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Key</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">(</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCX)</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">is</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">only</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">one</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">available</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span>&nbsp; </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">But</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">custom</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">authentication</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">can</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">be</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">developed</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">if</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">desired</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span>&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">You</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">&#39;</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">d</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">need</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">software</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">developer</span><p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">This</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">FAQ</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">article</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">has</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">become</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">obsolete</span>.&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Basically</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">software</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">developer</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">would</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">need</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">to</span>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">create</span> &nbsp;</p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">DonorHub</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">is</span> a <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">SOAP</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">web</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">fully</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">managed</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">cloud</span> service<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">that</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">clones</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?wsdl"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">WSDL</span></a> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">used</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">by</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">built-in</span><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx"> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</span></a><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span>&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">In</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">NET,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">you</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">could</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">easily</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">create</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">C</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">#</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">web</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">sevice</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">that</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">does</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">exactly</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">this</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">via</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">NET</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">SDK</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">command</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">line</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">:</span></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">wsdl</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">/</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">out:C:\dev\MyCustomAuth.cs</span> </strong><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL"><strong><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL</span></strong></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Another</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">aproach</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">if</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">you</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">&#39;</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">re</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Delphi</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">developer</span>, <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">would</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">be</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">use</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">source</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">code</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">for</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">built-in</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCX</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">authentication</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">:</span><br /><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip</span></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">The</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">built-in</span>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#800080;"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</span></span></span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">describes</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">each</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">method</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">some</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">detail</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">The</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">protocol</span>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">inspired</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">heavily</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">hosted</span> by <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">CAS</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">protocol</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">but</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">it</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">could</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">be</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">implemented</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">against</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">most</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">any</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">authentication</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">service</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">TntWare</span>.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">There</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">&#39;</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">s</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">also</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">an</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">included</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">&quot;TestAuthenticationService.asmx&quot;</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">that</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">response</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">automatically</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">as</span> </p> <p><span style="background: SpringGreen;">Let</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">us</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">know</span>&nbsp;if<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">user</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">logged</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCX</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">service</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">as</span> <a href="mailto:test@test.com"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">test@test.com</span></a><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span>&nbsp; <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">This</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">is</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">how</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">I</span>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">make</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/staffportal/default.aspx"><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">demo</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Staff</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Portal</span> </a><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">available</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">without</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">authentication</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">To</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">configure</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Staff</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">Portal</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">to</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">use</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">custom</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">authentication</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">,</span> &nbsp;you&#39;d <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">have</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">like</span> to <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">edit</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">web.config</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">StaffPortal</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">directory</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">and</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">in</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">the</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">DataQuery</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">directory</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">.</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">learn</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">more</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">:</span>&nbsp; <a href="mailto:info@tntware.com"><span style="background: SpringGreen;">info@tntware.com</span></a></p>https://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx/revision/2.aspxThu, 29 Nov 2012 16:08:30 GMT51c8af77-2ecd-4ae7-b5f5-4793798b888c:178Troy Wolbrinkhttps://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx/comments.aspxRevision 2 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Troy Wolbrink on 11/29/2012 4:08:30 PM<br /> <h2>Can I add authentication for web users to something other than <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCX</span><span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">?</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">The</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Key</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">(</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">GCX)?</span></h2> <p>Out-of-the-box, <span style="text-decoration: line-through; color: red;">GCX</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">The</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">Key</span> <span style="background: SpringGreen;">(</span><span style="background: SpringGreen;">GCX)</span> is the only one available.&nbsp; </p> <p>But custom authentication can be developed, if desired.&nbsp; You&#39;d need a software developer.&nbsp; Basically,&nbsp;the software developer would need to&nbsp;create a SOAP web service that clones the <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?wsdl">WSDL</a> used by the built-in<a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx"> GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</a>.&nbsp; In .NET, you could easily create a C# web sevice that does exactly this via the .NET SDK command line:</p> <p><strong>wsdl /out:C:\dev\MyCustomAuth.cs </strong><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL"><strong>https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL</strong></a></p> <p>Another aproach, if you&#39;re a Delphi developer, would be to use the source code for the built-in GCX authentication:<br /><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip">https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip</a></p> <p>The built-in&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#800080;">GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</span></span> describes each method in some detail.&nbsp;&nbsp;The protocol&nbsp;inspired heavily by the CAS protocol, but it could be implemented against most any authentication service.</p> <p>There&#39;s also an included &quot;TestAuthenticationService.asmx&quot; that response automatically as if the user logged in to the GCX service as <a href="mailto:test@test.com">test@test.com</a>.&nbsp; This is how I&nbsp;make the <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/staffportal/default.aspx">demo Staff Portal </a>available without authentication.</p> <p>To configure the Staff Portal to use a custom authentication, you&#39;d have to edit the web.config in the StaffPortal directory and in the DataQuery directory.</p>https://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx/revision/1.aspxTue, 25 Jan 2011 15:33:06 GMT51c8af77-2ecd-4ae7-b5f5-4793798b888c:42Troy Wolbrinkhttps://www.tntware.com/donorhub/faqs/en/can-i-add-authentication-for-web-users-to-something-other-than-the-key-gcx/comments.aspxRevision 1 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Troy Wolbrink on 1/25/2011 3:33:06 PM<br /> <p>Out-of-the-box, GCX is the only one available.&nbsp; </p> <p>But custom authentication can be developed, if desired.&nbsp; You&#39;d need a software developer.&nbsp; Basically,&nbsp;the software developer would need to&nbsp;create a SOAP web service that clones the <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?wsdl">WSDL</a> used by the built-in<a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx"> GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</a>.&nbsp; In .NET, you could easily create a C# web sevice that does exactly this via the .NET SDK command line:</p> <p><strong>wsdl /out:C:\dev\MyCustomAuth.cs </strong><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL"><strong>https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthenticationservice.asmx?WSDL</strong></a></p> <p>Another aproach, if you&#39;re a Delphi developer, would be to use the source code for the built-in GCX authentication:<br /><a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip">https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/gcxauthentication/gcxauthentication_source.zip</a></p> <p>The built-in&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#800080;">GCXAuthenticationService.asmx</span></span> describes each method in some detail.&nbsp;&nbsp;The protocol&nbsp;inspired heavily by the CAS protocol, but it could be implemented against most any authentication service.</p> <p>There&#39;s also an included &quot;TestAuthenticationService.asmx&quot; that response automatically as if the user logged in to the GCX service as <a href="mailto:test@test.com">test@test.com</a>.&nbsp; This is how I&nbsp;make the <a href="https://dataserver.tntware.com/dataserver/test/staffportal/default.aspx">demo Staff Portal </a>available without authentication.</p> <p>To configure the Staff Portal to use a custom authentication, you&#39;d have to edit the web.config in the StaffPortal directory and in the DataQuery directory.</p>