<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>My question concerns the Multi Context Broker (MCB) login handler detailed at</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Multi-Context+Broker">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Multi-Context+Broker</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I understand that the <initialAuthContext> configuration element controls "...<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17.33333396911621px">a list of the authentication context values you as the administrator wish to present to the user" if the user has no existing session with the IdP. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17.33333396911621px"><br></span></div><div><div>In the event that the user does not have any existing session with the IdP and the SP has not requested any authentication context does the value for the defaultAuthenticationMethod attribute on the <RelyingParty> element corresponding to the SP factor at all into determining which choices are shown to the user? Is the defaultAuthenticationMethod used to filter the list of choices?</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Scott K</div></div>