trouble with iis 7.5 windows sever 2008 r2

[Cantor, Scott]

> Can you be a little more specific about what you might expect to go wrong in
> the case of a 64bit shibd service that gets requests from a 32bit isapi filter, so
> I might know what kind of trouble to look for?  I'm guessing that there is
> binary compatibility required with the messages being exchanged?

They're XML, which is why it does appear to work. What I assumed would happen is that the low level framing with the message length sent would break because it would be a different size, but apparently those network byte order functions assume a fixed-size type. I suppose if it surmounted that hurdle, I can't think of any absolute reason it couldn't work.

One place it definitely won't work is if an extension library were loaded, because the IIS half of things is going to read exactly one shibboleth2.xml file. I suppose it could be told to load both types, and not fail in either case, and that might work.

The simple answer is that I have no idea.

Even if it were something I could test, I don't have time for the next patch to think about changing the installer behavior. I am not opposed to you adding information to the wiki that describes how it might be made to work, if you decide you want to go there.

-- Scott