Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

Title: Message

My limited testing last year didn't leave me with any confidence that it was workable, but I didn't spend all that much time on it. Normally, any browser window will be in a separate process from Explorer, but it's possible that if you open a file folder, then go to a web page inside it, you can get the cookie into the right process to make it work. That still leaves session timeouts, but that's a tough problem anyway.

 

--- Scott

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Muldoon [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Wilcox, Mark; Scott Cantor; ;
Subject: Re: OS X info, webDAV use case

> I completely agree – the hard part of DAV support is getting real 
>   client support for actual HTTP standards.  My inclination is that Apple 
>   would be reasonably willing to adjust things if needed, since I’m pretty sure 
>   they can use neon to link against for their http support.  Microsoft 
>   could as well, but they are usually not so great about embracing standards. 
>    So it isn’t so much that they would have to be convinced to support 
>   Shibboleth (as I doubt any of their big customers are clamoring for it), but 
>   that they need to support HTTP 1.1.  I have no access to a Windows 
>   machine anymore, but doesn’t the Web Folders stuff just use “IE technology”? 
>    In that case, as long as it is a BASIC AUTH or a DIGEST AUTH type, 
>   shouldn’t it work?  Granted, it won’t work if you need to log on at a 
>   website, but if you just push a login/password request, won’t a dialog box 
>   just pop up?  As I recall with thinking about DAV with pubcookie, 
>   everything works so long as you’ve logged into login server with a browser 
>   first, then use web folders.  I’d imagine that it should be the same case 
>   with Shib.  But again, I can’t test this right now.