Display image in BSP page,images are on a web server outside of SAP

Question

Hi,
I am creating a BSP page for employee profile.The page needs to show an emp picture along with other info.The images are not in the MIME repository,they are stored in a separate web server.I am able to display the page using
<img border="0"                     src="http://.com/xyz/xyz.bmp" >
However this is a non secured test server. If the images are on a secured server,I am assuming,an id ,pswd authentication will be required.Can I get the authentication done automatically so that the page is rendered seamlessly for the end user?
Would SSO help if this web server is a portal server?what if the web server is not a portal server?

Answer 1

Hi Manidipa,
The Http class in SAP can also be used in passing the required authentication information to the non-SAP portal system.
http://searchsap.techtarget.com/whitepaperPage/0,293857,sid21_gci1084087,00.html
There is an article written by Angeli Axel which does the same. The article has got ABAP HTTP classes and methods to get and post the parameters to the non-SAP portal system.
The same solution can be done by passing the credentials in the url. The custom solution would be to pass the required credentials in the url and the receiving application should grab those information from the url and confirm the authentication. After that it should be able to provide you the image. After getting the image it can be simply displayed in your BSP using iframe tag.
For eg if the receiving side is in java, then the following code can be used to receive the username and password. Once you get this you can verify the validity depending on the datasource whether LDAP(MS-ADS, Sun one, Novell edirectory) or ordinary database(Oracle, MS SQL Server .. etc) is used for storing the credentials.
try {
          String userName = request.getParameter("username");
          String password = request.getParameter("password");
          if (validateUser(userName, password)) {
             response.sendRedirect("mainpage.jsp");
The main page here you display the image
} catch (Throwable t) {
The above code should be considered as pseudo code for any server side language.
Please let me know if this helps.
With regards,
Rajesh Khanna Venkatesan.