What for is the backchannel

[Ulf Seltmann]

Dear list,

currently I am setting up a IdP for our institution and I am struggling with the backchannel-support.
I followed the documentation here[1], but it seems somewhat incomplete. 

Also I do not want to protect the HTTP-Requests with jetty - i have a dedicated SSL-reverse-proxy for that.

My question is: do i need backchannel-support? What is it used for, what clients rely on it, is it an upcoming trend to
use the soap-endpoint so that i generally want to support it...

Any hints are very appreciated. 

Thanks in advance,
cheers
-- 
Ulf Seltmann
System-Administrator

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig
IT-Dienste
Grassistraße 8 | 04107 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 341 2144 681 | Fax: +49 341 2144 503
ulf.seltmann at hmt-leipzig.de | www.hmt-leipzig.de

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