constructing a service list (with URLs)

[Peter Schober]

* Don Faulkner <donf at uark.edu> [2013-11-01 21:10]:
> We’re trying to dynamically generate a web page that acts as a
> directory of services that our campus IdP supports. Has anyone built
> something similar?

You can find a couple of tools here, which all differ in funtionality
and intended audience (federation operators, support people, end
users, etc.):
https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Feedback_on_MET

The version of the "ACOnet SAML Metadata Viewer" I'm using locally
(with German language descriptions and preferring "de" locale where
available) is at
https://eduid.at/entities/sp
https://eduid.at/entities/sp/interfed
I considered making the code (pure XSLT plus thin wrappers to expose
this on the web, in Python or PHP) available but haven't yet done so.

> We want to focus on campus services primarily, but eventually also
> provide a list of federation services we use as well. The MDUI
> extension provides most of what we want, but we want the entries to
> be clickable, so the the links have to point the user to the Entry
> URL (if that’s the right term) for each service, and it feels wrong
> semantically to use the InformationURL for this purpose.

See this thread on the REFEDS list last time this topic came up:
https://www.terena.org/mail-archives/refeds/msg02427.html
Note that it's InformationURL I'm currently using.
-peter