Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

You can't do this with the shire parameter.  I'd suggest storing the  
state in a cookie/session, but another option is to add data to the  
target parameter URL.

-Walter


On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Alistair Young wrote:

> I wonder if anyone could comment. I have a requirement to add a  
> query param to the shire param that's sent from an SP to an IdP but  
> the shire doubles as the providerId and the dynamic content of the  
> query param breaks the metadata matching.
>
> shire=https://sp.mysite.com?entityID=DYNAMIC_CHANGES_ALL_THE_TIME
>
> Is there any way in the IdP to separate the providerId from where  
> the response to the SP should go (shire)? Or is there a way to  
> regex the metadata matching to ignore the query param?
>
> My SP needs to preserve some state at it's end based on the  
> response from the IdP. The only way it can do that is adding a  
> query param to the shire IdP param.
>
> Ideally, it would be good if the IdP could "bounce" something back  
> to the SP that made sense to the SP.
>
> Alistair