Overview

caslib provides a python interface to CAS [1].

A validating httplib.HTTPSConnection and urllib2.HTTPSHandler.

Features

• CASServer.login() Generate the login URL to log into a CASsified service
• CASServer.validate() Check a CAS service ticket (use of ssl [2] is suggested to validate connection to the server)
• CASService Define a CASsifed service
• login_to_cas_service() Attempt to authenticate to a CAS /login form (may require lxml [3])

Links

[1]	Central Authentication Service <http://www.jasig.org/cas>

[2]	ssl implements certificate validation (included in Python-2.6+) <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssl>

[3]	lxml provides html support <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml>