configuration for two unrelated servers

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Ewert, Craig wrote:

> Maybe I'm crazy, so please confirm.
>
> I have two servers A (for apache) and W (for weblogic) on different machines.  Is it possible to configure shibboleth on A to secure the resources on W without having A act as proxy and catch & forward all Ws traffic?  Or is that a crazy desire that could never be secure?
>

If you are going to "secure the resource on W" through the SP on apache 
then you are proxying. All the "secured" traffic needs to flow
through apache.

The SP can not protect things it does not know about..

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thanks
  kevin.foote