Communication Protocol used by SP with TCPListener-enabled

[César Bernardini]

Hi Scott,

Thanks a lot for your answer. Sorry for using the word "forced". I am not intending to criticize, just trying to understand what has being done and why :)

Could you please tell me what is the point of these listeners? What are they used for in? Are they for debugging?

Best regards,
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From: dev <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net> on behalf of Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 4:24 PM
To: Shib Dev
Subject: Re: Communication Protocol used by SP with TCPListener-enabled

On 1/10/18, 10:16 AM, "dev on behalf of César Bernardini" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of cbernardini at barracuda.com> wrote:

>  I have been testing Shibboleth in the last couple of days. I have set up a Service Provider with a TCP Listener. I want to
> know if there exists documentation regarding the communication between the TCP Listener and a client.

No, it's not a public interface and is not callable under any circumstances. It's an internal implementation detail of the code and subject to change at any time.

>  Is there any RFC-like document over there? Or I am forced to go over the source code in order to understand this
> protocol?

You're not forced to do anything, but it's undocumented and will remain so. If you're asking from the perspective of design documentation, that's simply not something that exists, as it does not in 99% of open source projects.

-- Scott


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