[keycloak-dev] security proxy prototype

[Stan Silvert]

On 11/20/2014 10:07 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> I was bored of writing adapters, so I decided to take a break and build
> a security proxy.  Prototype is functional, but still needs some work.
>
> You can secure any HTTP based app or service with zero changes to the
> proxied app.  You just specify the host port of the server and then
> web.xml-like security constraints.  I was able to re-use everything we
> had so far.  Undertow was insanely modular and already had everything I
> needed to piece things together.
>
> Left to do?  Testing all constraint parameters, build a config parser
> and format, and build a distro.  Should take 1 or 2 more days for all of
> that.
>
> As a side effect, we now have a pure Undertow adapter.
I thought I already refactored our Undertow adapter to be pure?

This sounds way cool though.  I love stuff that doesn't require changes 
to the app.  At some point, I'd like to look into controlling this from 
the subystem.