Communication Protocol used by SP with TCPListener-enabled

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/10/18, 10:38 AM, "dev on behalf of César Bernardini" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of cbernardini at barracuda.com> wrote:

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

The entire implementation is in shibd. mod_shib is just a layer in Apache that calls into shibd to do all the real work. All of the session layer is managed in a separate process because Apache is multi-process and storing sessions on the filesystem is not, in my experience, robust or reliable.

-- Scott