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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Are you planning to place your IdP behind a load balancer acting as a reverse proxy? Then you could just remove the Basic Authentication headers there. In our
case we have our IdP load balanced behind an F5 Big-IP anyway for failover so it’s easy to remove these headers. Maybe you have a similar set-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Vincent Feyaerts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> users [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marco Naimoli<br>
<b>Sent:</b> woensdag 14 december 2016 14:57<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Basic Authentication on Password flow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Il 14/12/2016 14:18, <a href="mailto:users-request@shibboleth.net">
users-request@shibboleth.net</a> ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>On 12/14/16, 4:29 AM, "users on behalf of Marco Naimoli" <a href="mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.netonbehalfofmarco.naimoli@unipd.it"><users-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of marco.naimoli@unipd.it></a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>What is the correct and simpler way to disable this feature (hope it's not creating a new flow) ?<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>There is no supported way. You can file a RFE for that, it would just take a fairly simple patch and you would be able to apply that ahead of time in a manner that would survive upgrades in the future since it would match the change made to the code.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>I'd be curious why you care about this though.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>-- Scott<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p>I'd like to control to switch on or off this feature; I have this need because we have a test IDP installation, protected by a basic auth: users that wants<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>to use it must authenticate with a personal password. Then they can do their tests using test users with test passwords; in a standard IDP installation
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<p>users receive an error about a failed authentication, due to the check of the basic auth data. It's an aesthetic problem, I could solve it modifying views,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>probably, but I don't want also that anyone can authenticate "outside" the IDP, to avoid that a site/webapp can be used to collect user passwords<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In the future I could choose to enable this feature, for some directly controlled SP: that's why I was looking a simple way (like changing a parameter)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>to switch the feature on or off<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Thank you very much<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Marco<o:p></o:p></p>
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