Rapid Connect
Connecting applications to New Zealand Research and Higher Education users
About Rapid Connect
- Rapid Connect provides an easy way for applications to authenticate users via a signed Json Web Token (JWT)
- There is no need to install a Shibboleth SP on your webserver;
- It natively integrates into commonly used development languages;
- PaaS solutions like Heroku, Google App Engine and Pagoda become suitable deployment targets for Tuakiri services;
- Attributes are already defined in logical sets, there is no approval process for attributes; and
- Integration code is minimal, simple to write and easy to test.
- However, JWT and Rapid Connect originate from before the OpenID Connect specification was created and adopted.
- For deployment of new applications, please consider using the Tuakiri OpenID Connect Bridge instead of Rapid Connect if possible.
Current Release
Tuakiri Rapid Connect is now available in the production and test federations.
Deployed version: 1.13.1
Example Integration Code
Here is the full source (minus the actual HTML) of an application developed in Ruby using the Sinatra framework. It implements all the bits required for using Rapid Connect.