Placing APM in front of SharePoint 2010

All,

 

 

Having some difficulties in getting APM to work with Sharepoint 2010. This is on a F5 running latest 11.1 version.

 

 

The APM bit to collect username and password and authenticating to our AD server works fine. The problem is that Sharepoint is insisting on asking for its own Form based authentication credentials as well - we want to use SSO.

 

 

I have tried basic, ntlm's and form based SSO - none of them seem to want to work.

 

 

I am no expert in Sharepoint, but I have been assured that using the Forms based authentication is required as Basic authentication wont work with an external LDAP provider.

 

 

The Form that Sharepoint presents has silly field names like:

 

ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$login

 

ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$UserName

 

ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$password

 

 

When plug these into the SSO and try to connect I can see from a network snoop that Sharepoint is just sending back the logon form again - no reason why it is rejecting it.

 

 

I suspect that it requires some extra hidden fields or cookies to work - but how do I work out what?

 

 

As a debugging tool I am trying commands like this from the F5 console:

 

curl --trace - -d 'ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$login=Sign%20In' -d 'ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$UserName=wilsonjp' -d 'ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$signInControl$password=BOGUS' http://spointextweb/_forms/default.aspx

 

 

Anybody have any ideas? We have SSO working with Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, etc - this is the first Sharepoint deployment.

 

 

Thanks for any assistance!

 

 

Jason