persistent-id decode errors

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Wed Aug 7 14:33:46 EDT 2013


On 8/7/13 2:27 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>How do I decode semicolons in the actual data?
>
>The data is URL encoded like any HTTP header is, and semicolons are
>included in that encoding. They rarely if ever appear in actual data,
>which is why it was chosen.

Correction: they can be URL-encoded, but that's an option. The default is
to escape semicolons with a backslash. Nothing else is encoded.

The URL-encoding option is enabled with the encoding="URL" content setting:

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

-- Scott




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