Embedded Discovery Service and SP history cookie

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Sat Oct 22 20:12:04 BST 2011


On 10/22/11 2:44 PM, "Takeshi NISHIMURA" <takeshi at nii.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>I'm afraid SP and EDS are not compatible with each other if _saml_idp
>contains multiple entityIDs. There are two points of view:
>1) Which one is the most recent
>2) What string can be used as a delimiter

>SP: the last is most recent, concatenated by '%20'
>EDS: the first is most recent, concatenated by '+'
>
>I don't know which semantics is right, but it is useful for me if both
>softwares use the same semantics.

The last is the most recent. The encoding shouldn't matter, it's URL
encoded, and a + is generally the same as %20 unless there's a bug in the
decoder.

-- Scott



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