Passing attribute with whitespace value

Peter Schober peter.schober at univie.ac.at
Fri Jul 29 20:12:39 UTC 2022


* Warren Leung <warrenwl at uci.edu> [2022-07-29 22:00]:
> We are currently working with HR on evaluating ways of displaying
> users who have no first name. We currently are receiving FNU from
> HR, but many downstream systems has expressed issues with
> it. Leaving it blank would create issues for other systems. I guess
> the overall problem is probably something I can ask in an InCommon
> mailing list.

Well, if people don't have that attribute you don't send that
attribute (i.e., what Scott said). Then each system consuming
assertions from your IDP can implement whatever workaround or locally
preferred replacement value for a missing attribute that works for
them.
But IDM is difficult and many systems are just plain broken, no doubt.

Best,
-peter


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