default entityID

[Rod Widdowson]

Can you put in an RFE?  I'll be reopening that can or worms sometime next week.

I have a vague memory that DOMAIN doesn't work for windows but I'll check.  I might be mis-remembering because of the way it
resolved names.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Tom Scavo
> Sent: 16 February 2017 02:50
> To: Shibboleth Developers
> Subject: default entityID
> 
> I found this line in build.xml:
> 
> <input message="SAML EntityID:" addproperty="entityid"
> defaultvalue="https://${idp.host.name}/idp/shibboleth" />
> 
> That one line has cost countless numbers of deployers (and me) great
> misunderstanding and pain. That line should simply be:
> 
> <input message="SAML EntityID:" addproperty="entityid"
> defaultvalue="https://${DOMAIN}/idp" />
> 
> That is a much better entityID since it only depends on the domain,
> which rarely changes. Everything else is subject to change, but as you
> know, an entityID should NEVER change.
> 
> Tom
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