nameID question

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/20/13 11:05 AM, "Mike Flynn" <shibbolethlynda at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have looked at the WIKI for this but I am still not 100% clear on it.
>I currently have no iDPs that connect to my SP that require the use of
>this.  Not to say that will not change though.  Is the use of this fairly
>uncommon?  If someone wants to pass
> this to me would they have to hit one of the NIM endpoints?

No, the Shibboleth SP manipulates them and exposes them the same as
attributes, so your application could accomodate somebody insisting on
using them without any coding changes apart from differences due to the
format or syntax.

-- Scott