How to bypass authentication for some specific directories

[Peter Schober]

* John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> [2016-06-21 20:34]:
> Another way to solve the problem is to keep the two parts of the
> application on different URL's and just protect one URL with SAML. I
> suspect that will be a much simpler and cleaner solution.

Yeah, but the OP wrote "The code base for these two features is
sometimes common." which I understood to mean "the resource paths
(requested relative URLs) overlap".
Also sometimes you just can't change the way an application works,
and the Shib SP does provide the desired features to make this workable.
-peter