Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

> so there's  the balance point.... using logicalservicename makes 
> reconfig easier if you move the service to another  host; it makes 
> life a bit harder for the person managing the shibboleth.xml if your 
> host is serving several applications with the same/similar session 
> and attribute requirements.

It doesn't change anything about using shibboleth.xml. I'm not following you
here. There has never been any advantage to using a hostname in a
providerId, they're just strings. Literally in fact, you could put "fred" in
and it would work.

-- Scott