Adding attributes as request parameters along with environment variables.

[Peter Schober]

* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2013-08-03 19:29]:
> On 8/3/13 7:52 AM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> >
> >The IdP doesn't factor into this at all.  As for other ways, you could
> >write a very simple script to be run at the server, exporting
> >available attributes as YAML or JSON or something like that and let
> >the app parse the data from that shim.
> 
> The Session handler in 2.5 can do this. You can specify
> contentType='application/json' to get it to switch. Lukas asked for that
> addition. I don't know if this kind of use case was why.

Nice! I thought about suggesting the SP could do (I'd have gone for a
query parameter or Accept request header) but didn't dare to ;)
-peter