Shibboleth Developers

[Peter Schober <>]

* Chad La Joie 
<>
 [2011-01-03 12:27]:
> Rod pointed out, in a separate email to me, that the difference you're 
> talking about might be about what happens prior to loading the page the 
> DS is on.  The Shib DS uses the IdP discovery protocol so a proper DS 
> request needs to be sent to the page.  The SWITCH WAYF has its own 
> internal config options which allows any ol' request to the page to work 
> fine.
> 
> Rod asked if maybe we should add the ability to configure the 
> properties, normally gotten via the DS request, in the same manner as 
> the Javascript properties.  I think that's fine and would result in the 
> same "render on any ol' request" functionality that the SWITCH WAYF
> has.

Well, thanks Rod for elaborating. I do think this might make for a
useful extension, though (like the SWITCH WAYF) it does not really
align with the kantara/shibEBS discovery model of "put a link titled
'login' in the upper right corner" etc.
cheers,
-peter