/* * This file is part of gwap, an open platform for games with a purpose * * Copyright (C) 2013 * Project play4science * Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Programmier- und Modellierungssprachen * Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package gwap.authentication; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLEncoder; import org.jboss.seam.annotations.AutoCreate; import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Logger; import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name; import org.jboss.seam.log.Log; /** * Connects to an external webpage in order to check whether a username * and password combination exists on the remote side. * * @author Fabian Kneißl */ @AutoCreate @Name("remoteAuthenticator") public class RemoteAuthenticator { @Logger Log log; public boolean backstageUserExists(String username, String password) { try { username = URLEncoder.encode(username, "UTF-8"); password = URLEncoder.encode(password, "UTF-8"); String url = "http://backstage.pms.ifi.lmu.de:8080/user/probe?username=" + username + "&password="+password; return urlIsWithoutError(url); } catch (Exception e) { log.error("Error during URL-encoding username / password", e); return false; } } public boolean urlIsWithoutError(String url) { try { URL realURL = new URL(url); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) realURL.openConnection(); return connection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK; } catch (Exception e) { log.error("Error during querying external site", e); return false; } } }