Validate the user using Siteminder WebAgent SSO

Question

i want to implement SSO in an application for that i have a SiteMinder policy server at the application which provide the login (say application 1) and also have installed the Siteminder webagent on the server of other application which am going to login through SSO (say application 2). This siteminder thing is already done by some other team. Now i want to get the siteminder session and from that session i want the HTTP_SM_USER this is all with the help of WebAgent. After getting the user i want to validate the user against the DB of 2nd application. Can anyone guide me how can i proceed with this work ?

Answer 1

The SM agent usually adds an HTTP header with the user ID to the incoming request. You can inspect this header in your code to determine the user. Note that this header does not come from the browser, the SM agent inserts it before the request is handed to your application.