Embedded Discovery Service and SP history cookie

Takeshi NISHIMURA takeshi at nii.ac.jp
Sat Oct 22 20:39:49 BST 2011


Thanks Scott! I'll dive into the EDS code.

On 2011/10/23, at 4:12, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> 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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