question about shibboleth and perl script redirection

[Christopher Bongaarts]

It almost sounds like the missing bit of information the OP needs is:

"You run the Shibboleth SP on your web server to take care of all the 
IdP interaction for you."

On 10/7/2012 1:27 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> On 10/7/12 7:56 AM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> * Joseph Norris <jozefn at sonic.net> [2012-10-06 23:12]:
>>> I do not know what to put in the query string to the the shibboleth
>>> server.
>>
>> Depending on what you ultimately want -- so far you've only described
>> the method you're trying to get working, not what the problem is
>> you're trying to solve -- you could start by doing nothing and let the
>> softwre do ing for you.
>> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPProtectConten
>> t
>
> Yes, I think Nate is confused by your terminology here. If you mean a
> server side script, then it may have no role to play here at all, or it
> may be a protected resource that needs to consume REMOTE_USER or other CGI
> variables, or it may be a trigger script that generates a redirect to the
> SP at /Shibboleth.sso/Login to get a request to the IdP sent.
>
> Reading the documentation is where you need to start.
>
>> In both cases you don't have to handle (or even know about) any of the
>> details like passing of messages or ever even seeing XML.
>
> That is almost certainly the case. If you're doing anything directly with
> SAML, you're either off base in some way, or we're not following your
> problem description.
>
> -- Scott
>
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