Shibboleth Developers

["Howard Gilbert" <>]

The preferred location to give out to those looking for the Java Target is now

 

http://tp.its.yale.edu/shib

 

This is the address of a "TikiWiki". Now before everyone says foul things about this technology, let me agree that I would much prefer something written in Java instead of php that uses HTML instead of its own Form-field-friendly formatting language. That said, these things are available, useful, and I can get someone to configure it for me on a Yale server in 15 minutes.

 

This provides a single framework where I can combine hyperlinked documentation, uploaded files and images, and every imaginable way of interacting and communicating. Anonymous users can see anything. You can self register and become a contributor.

 

If you want to sign up for a named account, give yourself a userid and password and then supply the secret passphrase "ShibIsSAML" to self-register. As I note on the page, it is a minor embarrassment that you cannot authenticate to the Wiki using Shibboleth yet, but we will fix that in good time. Give the passphrase out to any reliable person who will not use the site to store illegal files.

 

The target audience is implementers who want to hack the code a little to do things differently. The objective is to provide a forum where we can be a bit more informal and post for public inspection things that may be helpful to people writing code. These ideas may not be "Standards-track."

 

Anyone who has questions can write me, but please no flames about the technology. Of course, you can always ignore the Wiki and simply treat this as a normal Web site.

 

Disclaimer: I turned on a few features that I am not yet using and haven't tested. I am not sure what will really prove useful. I am not sure that this type of collaborative publishing will work. I am not sure that anyone other than me will use it. Maybe next month something better will come along.