Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Hi Tom,

Exactly.  If you use shibboleth's metadata API, then your code will be 
mostly insulated from issues such as the metadata format and 
distribution method.

-Walter


On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Tom Barton wrote:

> Walter Hoehn wrote:
> > A couple of comments.  Sorry if we've been over these before, but 
> > it's been a mighty long time since we've discussed it.
> > 1) In section I.2a it seems that it would be more inline with current 
> > practice to place and IdP provider id in the certificate extension.  
> > This could then be used to lookup the set of valid attribute query 
> > endpoints.
>
> Ok. What "resolver" is used to look them up? Are you referring to 
> metadata maintained and distributed to IdPs and SPs by a 3rd party (a 
> federation), that an SP would use to look up a provider id?

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