Shibboleth Developers

At 12:54 PM -0400 6/21/04, Scott Cantor wrote:
>  > 2) change the shire value to my localhost shire
> >  (https://hostname/Shibboleth.shire -- actually, the HOST name with
> >  the RequestMap elements for the standard target say Host
> >  name="localhost" -- will shib map my real  hostname to localhost,
> >  when its mapping thru the requestmap?
>
> Generation of redirects varies by platform. Apache has commands to control
> the ServerName and Port, and I added one that allows the scheme to be
> overridden for special cases. IIS redirects are based on the ISAPI element I
> defined because there is no real API to do it.
>
> The RequestMap isn't used for generating redirects, it's used to process the
> incoming request and determine the settings to apply. If the request in uses
> a real host name, then you need to correct the map if you want to use any
> settings you stick in the map.
>
> In most cases, you want to change all the hostnames wherever they appear,
> except in the URIs used purely as identifier strings. It will work in some
> cases even if you don't change the hostnames, but that depends a lot on the
> test.

sorry for not being clearer -- so, before trying this, I should edit 
the shibboleth.xml that comes  with the distribution, and wherever 
the string localhost occurs, change it to the real name of my host? I 
guess I was hoping that the shib code might recognize localhost as a 
special value, and substitute in my real host name..... but as I type 
that out, and see how ridiculous it  looks, the answer is obvious  (-: