Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

Scott Cantor 
<>
 writes:

> > In my port to Apache2 I'm seriously considering a return to a 
> > single plugin module.  It appears that about 50% of the code 
> > in mod_shire and mod_shibrm is duplicated, and much of the 
> > configuration wonkiness was due to the module split.  I think 
> > it would be easier to code AND easier to administer if it 
> > were returned to a single module.
> 
> At this point, I'm personally inclined to agree. I actually think that if we
> want to support pluggable RM functionality, we might be better served doing
> it ourselves via some kind of simple interface called from the "base" RM in
> the module. I think it's potentially more portable to other environments
> that way, too.

Ok.  I'll make a single module, then.

> > I could always add a ShibRM=Off directive to turn off the RM 
> > processing for sites that want to do it themselves (to retain 
> > the same functionality as not using mod_shibrm)
> 
> Note that mod_shibrm does two things...exports attributes and enforces
> htaccess. The former seems like a given to me. W/o it, why even use
> mod_shire? Eventually we might have other ways of getting attributes via a
> library, but the shire module itself is worthless as an Apache plugin w/o
> that functionality coming from somewhere. The piece for htaccess files might
> be just the opposite of your suggestion...turn it on if you want it.

Well, we can make it a boolean and decide later what the default value is.

> -- Scott

Thanks,

-derek

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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