Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Scott,

In our discussion on the 17th, it came up that the nsdl was the first 
group so far to talk about using shibb attributes for things other than 
authorization.  It would be nice if we could either hook into this 
channel or the eventual cache that the RM uses.  What do you think about 
the possibility of the SHAR stuffing the attributes in a database and 
simply redirecting to the RM?  The database effectively becomes the RM's 
cache, but is also available to other programs.  I am sure that this 
cache would be relatively small, so the database could be lightweight 
and in-memory.

-Walter


Scott Cantor wrote:

> There is a problem to solve for the Java part of the SHIRE to pass state
> into the C++ part of the SHIRE/SHAR, but it's similar to the problems of
> building Apache modules that share state between forked children anyway,
> so it's mandatory to deal with eventually even if we could build the
> whole thing in C.
>
> All that said, if there's a shared memory toolkit out there that
> supports both C and Java, that would be cool to hear about, but I don't
> know of one.
>
> -- Scott
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Walter F. Hoehn, Jr
Systems Programmer
Columbia University - EPIC
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