Products.AutoRoleFromHostHeader 0.3.0

Plone PAS plugin for adding roles (or groups) to anonymous or logged-in visitors looking for HTTP Headers.

Add roles to (anonymous or logged-in) visitors based on browser HTTP header

Introduction

The AutoRoleFromHostHeader plugin allows to assign roles to users looking at client HTTP headers.

There is an extraction and authentication plugin included, to enable additional roles for anonymous users. They are required since PAS does not support roles (or properties or groups) for anonymous users. You can disable these interfaces if only logged-in users should get additional roles.

AutoRoleFromHostHeader furthermore provides a groups plugin interface, allowing you to assign groups instead of roles.

Configuration

The plugin is configured by editing the Header name, regexp and roles property on the plugin’s Properties screen. Each line represents a mapping from an header value (using a regexp match) to one or more roles. The format is as follows:

http_header_name; regular expression; role[, role ...]

Assign groups, not roles

This plugin can be used to assign groups instead of roles if used as a group plugin instead of a role plugin:

http_header_name; regular expression; group

Caveat

If you have AutoRoleFromHostHeader configured for anonymous users and come from a network matching one of its rules, you will NOT be able to log in with an account from a higher-up user folder. This is because AutoRole authenticates the Anonymous User which stops the lookup process.

Dependencies

Tested with:

• Plone 3.3

• Plone 4.1

Credits

Developed with the support of Azienda USL Ferrara; Azienda USL Ferrara supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

• This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.

  

• AutoRoleFromHostHeader is not an original idea but is taken from the work made by Jarn company for the AutoRole plugin.

• Special thanks to Mauro Amico (mamico) for giving us the main direction.

Changelog

0.3.0 (2011-10-17)

• Fixed compatibliy with webserverauth [yurj]

• Updates tests on Plone 4.1 [keul]

0.2.0 (2010-10-04)

• Fixed project URL on plone.org [keul]

• Added plugin icon [keul]

• Fixed broken tests [keul]

• Added z3c.autoinclude support [keul]

0.1.0a (2010-03-24)

• Initial release