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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You may want to take a look at the Embedded Discovery Service (EDS):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/EDS10/Embedded+Discovery+Service">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/EDS10/Embedded+Discovery+Service</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> users-bounces@shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Goodman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Alternatives to DS deployment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Was just looking at the instructions for installing the Discovery Service (<a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/DSInstall">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/DSInstall</a>) and it says the following:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>“</b>The first question you should ask is whether you need to install the
<a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/DiscoveryService">DiscoveryService</a>. If you're working in a non-Java environment, you may find it easier to build a selection page in a more native fashion, or you may find that the SP alone provides
enough rudimentary support to get started.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure I’m fully grokking the advice here. Are these the kinds of alternatives being suggested? Are there other common modes to consider? Or is something else implied here?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* link to an existing WAYF/DS (such as InCommon’s WAYF/Discovery Service) rather than deploying locally<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* present a static list of idp-initiated SSO links<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* present a static list of IdPs, then initiate actual authentication requests by calling SAML libraries and redirecting the user directly in your app (instead of having the SP do this)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--- Eric<o:p></o:p></p>
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