Other than SQL and other databases, you can create a custom repository to interact with pretty much anything. We already mentioned that you can interact with any COM API that is built into Windows, and another such example is ServerXMLHTTP, which allows your ASP code to interact directly with web servers. You can use it to send GET
and POST
requests, and retrieve the response body or headers.
In fact, you are not limited to just built-in objects. This is one of the wonderful things about COM objects any system that has a COM API can be used. This may entail installing some client software on the UAG server, or simply registering a DLL file. Most authentication providers in the world are LDAP-compliant (such as Sun iPlanet or Novell NDS). However, if you have another, as long as it has an ASP-compatible COM object, it's mostly a matter of learning how to interact with it.
One aspect of processing a user's credentials is the fact that username formatting can vary. Some organizations...