Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Alistair Young wrote:

> has anyone considered localisation within a federation? We're looking at
> extending IdP discovery to provide language selection.
> Presumably if IdP locations are known, they are provided by IdP suppliers.
> It would presumably be feasible for them to also associate their IdP with
> supported languages.
> An IdP could choose to ignore any language info that an SP may send along
> with it's initial Request but those that have multiple languages to
> support (English/Gaelic/Welsh for example) can initialise their SSO pages
> accordingly.

I am not particularly knowledgable about this stuff, but I would think 
that this would be an issue to be negotiated between the browser and each 
particular web-based service, rather than anything involving communication 
among Shib components.  That is, if you were running CAS or Pubcookie or 
CoSign as your websso, you might expect them to have localization support 
so that they could recognize the browser's language preference and deliver 
their content in the right language.  You might ask that of the Shib WAYF, 
and any Shib error pages too.  I'm sure the Shib team would appreciate 
contributions from anyone knowledgable in this area in helping the Shib 
components to do this right.  Yes?

 - RL "Bob"