Attribute encoding - meaning of 'name' with URL

[Kevin Foote]

On Jul 31, 2014, at 3:55 PM, John Horne <john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk> wrote:

> My question though is what is the 'name' used for? 
> ….
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/SAML2StringAttributeEncoder says that the 'name' is required, but not why.


I’m sure others on list have far more detailed answers. However for a short answer the “name” portion is what the 
attribute gets transferred as on the wire so to speak.

So for instance the RP (on the other end) will need to have something in their attribute-map.xml file that has that “name” defined to a local name.

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thanks
 kevin.foote