OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

> Actually I intend to (mis-)use the attribute query to carry information,
> let's say, from entity A to entity B instead of querying attributes from
> entity B what one normally does with the attribute query.

Then you should define your own extension to RequestAbstractType, or just 
issue a response/assertion to entity B, and make A an Attribute Authority 
(which it in fact is).

Misusing messages is not only a bad idea, it fundamentally breaks underlying 
code that processes messages semantically with rules regarding metadata and 
other considerations.

-- Scott