Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> Alias is an htaccess thing. It's for assigning a short name to the
> attribute for Require rules to use (e.g. require affiliation). Header 
> is the HTTP Request header name to export the values to. It's not likely 
> to get all that much outside of Apache.

Correcting this statement, I meant that the Alias field isn't likely to get
much use outside of Apache. Header, OTOH, is a fairly generalizable concept,
potentially even beyond HTTP, and it lines up fairly well with the
"FriendlyName" attribute added to SAML 2.0.

-- Scott