Question about attribute-map.xml

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/16/13 5:42 PM, "Ken Weiss" <ken.weiss at ucop.edu> wrote:
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>I restarted Apache and shibd, cleared my cookies, and reauthenticated, but
>the mail attribute did not appear in my session. So I added
>AttributeDecoder lines to attribute-map.xml, like this:

That shouldn't be necessary, the string decoder is the default.

>I looked at another Shibboleth SP that was set up over a year ago by my
>predecessor, and the attribute-map.xml file only has the Attribute
>statements, without the AttributeDecoder elements, but it works. I
>searched for similar configurations on the Internet, and every single
>example I found looked like the first case, with no AttributeDecoder
>elements.

They're equivalent.

>I have this working, so it's not exactly a high priority, but I would
>really like to better understand what's going on here. Why does my SP
>require that I include the AttributeDecoder, when other SPs apparently
>don't? Any thoughts?

I'm pretty sure it doesn't, and you hit some sort of issue with the
restart process, or possible you had a mistype initially and corrected it.

-- Scott