What is Shib Daemon used for?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/6/12 3:00 PM, "Yaowen Tu" <yaowen.tu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The question is: When we install SP for Apache on Windows, we can choose
>whether to install Shib Daemon or not.

No, you can't choose, it's always installed. The only choice, which is
being removed from the next version since it's not really a choice, is
whether to install it as a Windows service.

> Can anybody tells me what is that used for? Is it optional to make SP
>work?

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPArchitecture

I think that addresses the questions you're asking.

If you have questions about the technical internals, feel free to join the
dev list and ask them there, it's a more appropriate venue.

-- Scott