Shibboleth restful api

Question

I am writing an android application for an University that uses Shibboleth for authenticating the students.

Since I am making a android native app (not a webview), I would like to programmatically pass the username and password and get back the user credentials of the user. Does Shibboleth have a restful api that I can use.

for ex. CAS has https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASUM/RESTful+API which would allow me to programmatically send a username and password and get back the ticket credentials. Is there something similar for shibboleth?

Answer 1

Shibboleth does not provide a REST interface, but they do have a non-browser-oriented authentication profile called ECP. https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/CONCEPT/ECP