OpenSAML user discussion

["Tom Scavo" <>]

On 3/2/06, Scott Cantor 
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 wrote:
> > What about attribute query (apart from SSO)?  A lot of folks (besides
> > ourselves) are trying to leverage this in Shib 1.3.  Will this be
> > supported in Shib 2.0?
>
> Shibboleth 2.0 is still a SSO system. If it wasn't for the fact that it's
> simple to maintain due to the old logic, I wouldn't even bother doing SAML
> 2.0 queries in the Shibboleth SP, because it serves no purpose now.

Hmm, let me see if I understand what you're saying.  Since both
Browser/POST and Browser/Artifact can use attribute push, attribute
queries (pull) are unnecessary.  Is that what you mean?

> Beyond that, I really don't know what it means to "support" it other than
> exposing the components that make up a SAML query runtime, which the code
> does now, at least in C++.

Are you talking about OpenSAML or the Shib SP?

Tom