Shibboleth Developers

[Leif Johansson <>]

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On 07/08/2010 06:53 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
>> sounds nice, does it support hash transformations and other stuff like
>> the ones described in [1]?
>>
>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lajoie-md-query-00
> 
> I guess it's a question more for people with server implementions of that 
> protocol, or who plan on having them, but is that feature needed in the 
> client end, or just a nice to have? It seems to say that responders MUST 
> support MD5 and SHA1, but doesn't say that the requester MUST.
> 
> I confess I don't know that I understand the purpose of doing this in most 
> situations. URL encoding is pretty routine stuff, size isn't much of a 
> concern, etc.
> 
> Do you have a use case?

Good question. I confess I'm not sure myself except it makes the URLs a
bit more human-readable...

        Cheers Leif
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