<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>LOL thanks, Peter. The institution in question is unwilling to send these as single values. So if there is no generally accepted rule for this, I guess I will ask the school if getting the first value is acceptable.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Schober <peter.schober@univie.ac.at><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> users@shibboleth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 6, 2012 6:57 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Handling a multi-value
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* Mike Flynn <<a ymailto="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com" href="mailto:shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com">shibbolethlynda@yahoo.com</a>> [2012-12-06 15:47]:<br>> Thanks, Dave. Unfortunately that won't work as we need first and<br>> last name separate and displayname is a combination of those...<br><br>I've long had the need for, say, displayGivenName and displaySn, in<br>all those cases where an application insists on getting these as two<br>seperate pieces of data (and of course there's no way to reliably<br>split a single string into "correct" components automagically), but no<br>such thing exists and getting anything new widely deployed is, well,<br>highly unlikely.<br><br>So you're best bet is to just either grab any of the values (e.g. if<br>the IdP grabs them from an LDAP DSA they're possibly being returned in<br>"database order", i.e., in the order the data was loaded is is now<br>being stored, nothing useful to anyone) and/or tell
institutions to<br>only send you one value.<br><br>Given that the latter might not make a significant difference during<br>the average lifetime of a natural person you're probably left with<br>the former.<br>-peter<br>--<br>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net" href="mailto:users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net">users-unsubscribe@shibboleth.net</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>