Shibboleth Developers

["David L. Wasley" <>]

I think Bob's suggestion make sense, and I'd request that a button be 
included in the dialogue box to short cut the "wait" time. E.g.



     ENTER A NEW ORIGIN OR CLICK "GO" TO USE YOUR CURRENT DEFAULT
        +-----------------------------------+
        | Brown University                  |   [GO]
        +-----------------------------------+



        David

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At 9:03 AM -0800 on 11/17/02, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:

>Obviously we pitch an ease-of-use story with the WAYF setting a cookie to
>remember "where you're from" so you don't have to interact with it after
>the first time.  Unfortunately at least as currently implemented it's not
>"where you're from" but "where you've told the WAYF you want to go".  In
>testing, if I, say, choose one of the origins that isn't running now (like
>mine), then a cookie gets set and that's it, I have no other chance to
>interact with the WAYF, so I have to close my browser.  Now I happen to be
>the sort of person that keeps a browser running on my laptop for weeks at
>a time, with a dozen windows open, so closing is unpleasant.  I know
>enough to be able to go in and delete the wayf cookie, so I can work
>around it.
>
>Obviously there's a longer-term issue of how to manage this interaction,
>but I wonder if there isn't even a shorter-term problem that will cause
>problems for pilots.  "Make a mistake, restart your browser"  isn't the
>sort of impression we'll want to have the system make, especially since
>poking around via the WAYF may be exactly what people do as part of trying
>it out.  The only thing I can think of is to have the WAYF take the
>cookie-provided value as a default and go-there-in-N-seconds if the user
>doesn't choose another origin.
>
> - RL "Bob"
>
>

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