UA string in requests for metadata?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Aug 29 16:16:17 BST 2011


On 8/29/11 10:43 AM, "Tom Scavo" <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:

>Does the IdP and/or the SP send a custom user-agent string along with
>every HTTP request for metadata? That would be a sure way to know the
>Shib versions in use throughout a federation.

The SP sends a lot of headers, and a long user agent in more recent
builds, but some of the versions are strictly compile time and can be
misleading.

-- Scott



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