Shibboleth Service Provider Database Connection?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/30/15, 11:01 PM, "Alex Olson" <ako at byu.edu> wrote:



>Is it possible for the service provider to connect to a database? 
>Something like:
>
>Service provider receives attribute -> service provider queries db using 
>a received attribute to lookup some additional information -> service 
>provider provides additional attributes returned from query to resource 
>application.

Not without writing code. The plugin point is present, yes. ODBC is so 
badly implemented on non-Windows platforms that I never bothered to 
implement that particular example.

-- Scott