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  • From: Chad La Joie <>
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  • Subject: Re: Help with HA Shib
  • Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:40:56 -0400
  • Organization: UIS - Project Sentinel

How would I put it in the idp.xml in such a way that the configuration would be shared amongst handle and/or artifact mappers? I don't think there is currently a way to do that.

So, I'm thinking, for now at least, I'll just try to generate a much better, production quality, configuration file and then just document like 3 or 4 options people should/could fiddle with. So, for example, I'd probably drop all mention of the UDP stuff and just tell people to use TCP and put their IP addresses in the correct place. Drop mention of the synchronous/asynchronous and make it synchronous, etc. Just limit the options we tell people about. It'll still be an ugly file, but at least people can ignore 99% of it.

Later on, if we integrate this in to the Shib src we can make the configuration a lot cleaner and user friendly because the code will have access to APIs that extensions don't currently.

Walter Hoehn wrote:
Excellent! My one comment is that some of these configuration options don't really make sense or are sub-optimal for a production IdP. So, maybe you could have a MUCH simpler configuration syntax to put inline into idp.xml. This syntax would assume a lot of the configuration options and the more complex configuration could be generated from it.

-Walter


On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:

I believe I finished up the majority of the coding on the high availability (load balancing/fail over) extension I was working, however I need some advice on some thing. The current configuration file for the intra-node replication mechanism is a bear, and I'm unsure how to make it easier. One thought I had was to put an element for each bit configuration data in the idp.xml NameMapping element (which I'd then read and use in the code) but I'm not sure I like that, I think it might be to confusing or cluttered. Anyways, please take a look at the Configuring HA Shib, in the following document, and give me some feedback on what you'd like to see if you were deploying this at your university.

http://middleware.georgetown.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php/ projects:hashib:usagedoc

Also, if you look at the code and have some suggestions those are welcome too. I have not yet tested the code so I would suggest going out and installing it, it probably wouldn't work.

Thanks for the help.
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Chad La Joie 315Q St. Mary's Hall
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