REMOTE_USER not polulating in IIS 7.5

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/21/16, 10:22 AM, "users on behalf of Abhishek Verma123" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of abhishek_verma123 at rediffmail.com> wrote:

>    Thank you for your reply. You suggested in another post
> 
>    "The best option on IIS would be to use an unpunctuated header"

That just means don't use hyphens or other characters that get turned into underscores.

> Could you please elaborate a bit/alternatively suggest any workaround in order to proceed?

There isn't one. If the application absolutely requires REMOTE_USER, the SP won't work. Using REMOTE_USER on IIS historically involved tying the application to Windows accounts/security. I suspect that's changed some in new versions but the SP is written with the API designed over 15 years ago.

> uid is returned from IDP, in which form/variable IIS might be holding this which can then be passed to Siebel.

It's in the header named uid, and how you access that depends on the tools/language, of which there are examples in the wiki. It isn't always HTTP_UID. I don't really see how that helps you.

-- Scott