A while back, someone on the EZProxy list asked how to perform Ticket Authentication with ColdFusion. For those who don't know what EZProxy is, it's a URL rewriting proxy server used by a lot of academic institutions to provide off-campus access to subscription journals. In this particular case, the software allows people to create short-lived URLs that the EZProxy server automatically recognizes as being authenticated, so the resource is proxied but without a normal login screen.

The vendor provided several examples of how to accomplish this in several languages, but the ColdFusion one was a bit obtuse, so I wrote a CFC bean to generate the ticket authentication URLs. So, if you need to generate ticket authentication in ColdFusion, here's a CFC to help.