I have been working with the remote content asset recently. Our IT department is wanting to run our online application through the Remote Content (Not my idea). We have having some problems, as there is a login screen that needs to be passed, and this is where we are getting errors.
We are getting a "Malformed response" error, and also a 404 error, which is strange. Because Matrix rewrites the URL, would authentication to something like this most likely break? Or is Remote Content pretty good about things like this?
Depends on how the authentication works -- Matrix can handle plain HTML/HTTP authentication, but anything fancier, i.e. AJAX, will break. Matrix can't rewrite JavaScript on-the-fly.
Our IT guys say that it is a session based application. Which uses tokens and relies on a java servlet application. When you access the login page, a token/session id is created. It almost sounds to me like it is similar how Matrix does its login.
The software that they are using is Datatel Webadvisor.
Would it be impossible for Matrix to tunnel javascript authentication (or the kind that I described above), even with additional development or the Remote Content asset?
Matrix can handle session based authentication -- we have a Cookie Manager that handles that for us. However, we can't rewrite JavaScript on the fly, so if there are any URLs in the JavaScript that handles the authentication, then it'll break, as the URL will be different and possibly not even publicly available.
If the login box is a pure HTML form with no JavaScript, then it should work fine.