When DO you need IIS (or Apache)?

[Tom Scavo]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Paolo Smiraglia
<paolo.smiraglia at polito.it> wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 02:14 PM, Craig Caughlin wrote:
>>
>> Which kind of begs the question...under what circumstances WOULD you want
>> or NEED to have a web server application in use on your idP server?
>
> I use Apache for implementing a reverse proxy toward my Tomcat which is
> listening only on localhost for security reasons. Moreover, thanks to
> Apache, the IdP is accessible only on HTTPS and the users could be
> authenticated through X509 certificates.

Those are good points. Please try to capture that in the wiki?

Thanks,

Tom