MyProxy Developer's Guide

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Integrating MyProxy clients into your application allows you to authenticate and obtain credentials for your users. The following MyProxy APIs are available:

OAuth for MyProxy
Java API (Java CoG)
Example: MyProxy.java
See MyProxy JGlobus for the latest version.
Java MyProxyLogon API (source)
Python API (pyGlobus)
Python API
Python/OpenSSL MyProxy client (MyProxy GET only)
Perl API (Gridport)
Perl API (MyProxy GET only) (GridShib CA)
Perl API (also with VOMS support)
PHP API (MyProxy GET only)

Web application developers should consider using a grid portal toolkit that already supports MyProxy. See MyProxy and Grid Portals for more information.

MyProxy can aid in the development of single sign-on systems when configured for Creating and Authenticating "Session Passwords".

Web Service developers may find our example of Web Service Delegation via MyProxy of interest.

The GridShib CA provides an HTTPS interface to MyProxy supporting SAML (Shibboleth) and OpenID authentication.

A MyProxy JAAS Interface and Servlet Authentication Filter are available.

The MyProxyWebService provides a simple web service interface to MyProxy.