/*
* 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;
}
}
}