Shibboleth SP session timeout notification to IdP (PortalGuard)

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/22/13 5:12 PM, "Munikuntla, Saikumar (US - Newton)"
<smunikuntla at deloitte.com> wrote:

>
>>No, because if the session times out it simply makes a new request to the
>>IdP.
>When is the new request to the IdP sent (on session-timeout event or when
>the user tries to access some part of the application) ?

The latter, you can't make a request to an IdP without the client involved.

>So, session timeout is an event which is handled by Shibboleth SP and
>handled internally in the code?
>And that this event --cannot-- be configured from within shibboleth2.xml?

Yes.

-- Scott