Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Fullerton" <>]

Actually the issue of the cookie came up on Friday when I was showing
Shibboleth to the library group at NCSU.  One of their scenarios seems to be
the person who is a faculty at Duke, an alumnus at NC State and something
else at UNC.  She  should be able to switch where she is from according to
which role suits her.
--Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: 
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>[mailto:]On
> Behalf Of David L.
>Wasley
>Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 4:41 PM
>To: Shibboleth Design Team
>Subject: Re: WAYF cookie considered dubious
>
>
>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
>
>-----
>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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