ASTRA

ASTRA Web Service Overview

General usage

To use ASTRA, your application will follow these general steps:

1. Obtain a UWNetid from the UW WebLogin service
2. Invoke a call to the ASTRA web service
3. Sign the HTTP request with your UWCA certificate
4. Save the returned authorization data to the session cache
5. Process the cached authorization to determine whether someone is authorized for a particular action
6. See API documentation for information on methods exposed by the Web service.

ASTRA web service API Reference

NOTE: You will need to pass a valid client certificate in order to retrieve the following WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) document, though this step does not require you to be authorized in our Access Control List.

1. v.1
   WSDL: https://ucs.admin.washington.edu/astraws/astraws.asmx?wsdl
   
2. v.2
   New features in this release include authorization lookup for:
   
   • Authorizers and Delegators in addition to Users
   • Processes (by UWCA certificates) in addition to persons
   • Batch requests i.e. specifying multiple queries to be returned together
   WSDL: https://ucs.admin.washington.edu/astraws/v2/default.asmx?wsdl
   

Further information

• ASTRA Web Service Security Requirements
• How-to: Consume ASTRA Web Service from Microsoft.NET
• How-to: Consume ASTRA Web Service from Java J2EE
• How-to: Consume ASTRA Web Service from Coldfusion MX
• How-to: Acquire & Install UWCA X.509 certificates
• How-to: Configure ASP.NET web application to use X.509 certificates