Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

>     Has anyone been able to get Shibboleth compiled and functional. 
> using a Sun web server?  If so, could you provide some details?

Only a cvs build of the 1.2 branch contains the (working but mostly
untested) source. 1.3 will include another port to it.

As with any C++ code, it only works if the web server was built with the
same compiler (that server is written in C++) or on Windows, which has a
more advanced dynamic loader. This means (for practical purposes) that it
may never work on Linux, works fine on Windows, and could only work on
Solaris if it's built with Sun's compiler (if then), which I don't have.

Thus, it's primarily a Windows thing, which is pretty much what I needed.

Porting back to C would require removing every bit of SAML and XML
processing from the module or converting some selected pieces to libxml2,
which is a large task that I don't have a ton of interest in. My hope is
that the people using it are mostly interested in Java anyway, and the Java
port should address that (if their container supports filters at least).

Alternatively, one might expect to see people gateway SAML to some other web
authentication protocol (pick your favorite), which is how all the
commercial stuff works anyway. I'm mostly alone in trying to provide actual
end-application integration.

If people want a build of the Windows nsapi filter, I can post it, but I'm
not planning to support it until 1.3.

-- Scott