OpenSAML user discussion

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Right, I believe I understand your use case.  It just seems like this 
is the wrong place to "carry" this data.  I think that this 
functionality is outside the scope of the SAML attribute query.  I'd 
recommend a separate protocol for schema discovery.  This could be 
implemented quite simply by just publishing a static document at a 
well-known URL.  For a slightly better hack, you might use SAML status 
codes or SOAP headers.

-Walter


On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Mike Ferraro wrote:

> Quoting Walter Hoehn 
> <>:
> > I would advise against overloading a user's attribute information with
> > what really amounts to server schema data.  Not only does this foil 
> > any
> > chance at interoperability or re-use with your attribute authority, it
> > makes for unintelligible client code.
>
> Not sure what you mean by this.  I'm just trying to make a distinction 
> in the
> reason why I didn't get any data for a particular attribute for a 
> particular
> subject from a particular authority.  And, depending on the type of 
> non-data
> (empty v. null v. invalid), perform some sort of appropriate action 
> (display
> error, log result, continue, etc.).