Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Vishal,

Glad to have you back in Shibland!

Zhi Qing,

If you submit a bugzilla report at http://bugzilla.internet2.edu/ I'll 
add this sort of value handler to the base distribution.

-Walter


On Oct 1, 2004, at 11:15 AM, 

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> If you are using the JNDIDirectoryDataConnector, you may verify if the 
> binary attribute prints as something like [b@03893279?
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> The best way is to use the resolver batch scripts in the bin directory 
> for quick testing, rather than use the SHAR. Binary attributes may be 
> returned as byte[] from JNDIDirectoryDataConnector. However the 
> default ValueHandler used by SimpleAttributeDefinition is a 
> "StringValueHandler", it does a "toString()" on the attribute value 
> returned from JNDI.
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> If you indeed see the value printed as something like [b@65464613 it 
> is because the toString() on byte arrays returns that. You should 
> create a Base64ValueHandler that would take the byte[] and convert it 
> to a Base64 string, which can then be easily handled in all 
> assertions.
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> -- Vishal
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> From: Zhi Qing Wu 
> [mailto:]
>  Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:01 PM
> To: 
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> Subject: A Binary Attribute
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> Hello,
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> We have a question about attributes sent from AA to Shar.
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> We inserted a binary record (a certificate) into a LDAP server. AA 
> read the record and tried sending it with other text records to Shar 
> via SAML protocol. (We have defined two new attributes in relevant 
> LDAP schemes, one for the binary record and the other for a text 
> record. We have revised relevant configuration files such as ARP.xml, 
> resolver.ldap.xml and AAP.xml to make sure two records will not be 
> stopped due to these configuration files.)
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> After several experiments, by reading shar.log, we found the text 
> record (we defined) has been properly transmitted from the AA to the 
> Shar but we can not find the binary record in shar.log. 
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> Question: is transmitting binary record (such as an attribute 
> certificate) supported by SAML in shibboleth? If yes, how to change 
> the configuration to send the binary record from AA to Shar?
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> Any advice would be appreciated.
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> Zhi Qing
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