What for is the backchannel

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/2/21, 8:34 AM, "users on behalf of Peter Schober" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>    Adding a subjective view to Scott's reference to the documentation,
>    since I had already written it:

Bear in mind that you have to distinguish between "the backchannel" and the separate port. You can operate all of the use cases that require a backchannel over port 443 without any of the additional work that is referred to as "the backchannel".

-- Scott