New Shibboleth SP Handler using extension

[Daisuke Miyakawa]

Great. I actually loaded it out-of-process.

I appreciate it!

2013/1/16 Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu>

> On 1/15/13 5:48 PM, "Daisuke Miyakawa" <d.miyakawa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I have a question about Shibboleth SP extension:
> >  Can I introduce a new SP Handler implementation, using SP's extension
> >mechanism?
>
> Yes.
>
> >After putting the shared object in a right directory and rebooting shibd,
> >I successfully saw "(constructor): appId=default" log message in my
> >shibd.log, which is
> >embedded in my implementation of ExtraHandler (as you can see above).
> >At this point, I assumed ExtraHandler was detected and loaded by the SP
> >appropriately.
>
> Your handler (in its simple form) is not a shibd extension. It can load
> there, but won't do anything, it has to be loaded by the in-process half
> to matter. My guess is you loaded it only out of process and your
> native.log will show an error trying to install a plugin it can't find.
>
> >After that, however, I couldn't access to the relevant URL,
> >https://(myhost)/Shibboleth.sso/Extra.
> >SP raises shibsp::ConfigurationException with saying "Shibboleth handler
> >invoked at an unconfigured location."
> >though SP already appears to know the Handler is there, according to the
> >previous log message.
>
> No. shibd does, but that's not the whole SP.
>
> >No relevant error log was seen in shibd.log, while ideally I should be
> >seeing "run" log message.
>
> That isn't where such a message would appear unless your extension is
> implemented with internal remoting to an out of process portion like many
> of the built-in handlers are. The first "footprints" of any extension
> operating as a handler are in native.log from within the web server.
>
> -- Scott
>
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