F5 APM and external mobile application log in

Hi, after 10 days working on something else i started looking for an answer again. We still have some problems accessing our web services from a mobile device (internet) to our Sharepoint website (intranet) using F5 BigIP APM but at least we succeed to connect a user from internet to the sharepoint intranet site. To do this we access the my.policy form from the mobile application.

It needs 3 steps to do this :

• first you need to establish a connection to the form, to do that you just have to make an http request (get) to your entry point (dns, page, whatever redirect you to the F5 form). This step is necessary in my case because i can't send post data directly to the F5 form it redirects me directly to the logout page ... Maybe it's because something is not set correctly on my F5 params.

   

• then you can see on your APM that you created a F5 session (not authentificated), then you can do another httprequest to your F5 form but you need to use the same object (same session). You have 3 parameters to use : username, password and vhost (an hidden input field in the F5 form with 'standard' as default value). In my case after this, it worked i was authenticated on my sharepoint. To send the data to the F5 form we use REST (username=X&password=y&vhost=standard)

   

• last step, to access your pages / webservices you have to use the same session (in our case the same object). We're looking for another solution with a cookie stored on the mobile device instead of keeping the session object always open ...

   

Our solution works but we still have problem accessing some webservices (GET is working but not PUT and POST webservices). It might be another problem (sharepoint configuration, or something wrong in our global architecture).

If anybody else faces this webservices problem or need additionnal informations about what we did answer this post :)