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Subject: RE: [saml-dev] question on AttributeQuery processing
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:44 -0400, Scott Cantor wrote: > > LDAP filter and and SQL where clause is what an IdP can use to resolve > > attributes for a subject. They are implementation details, should they > > drive applications interface? > > That isn't my point. You said "a filter can certainly do X" and I was > pointing out two extremely common examples of filters that do not do X. In > fact, I would say that I've never once seen anything called a "filter" > behave the way you describe, so the idea simply never occurred to me, nor > did anybody ever suggest it. I'v been thinking for ten minutes and cannot find an example, so I guess you're right, calling a filter what I described is not common. And if the point was filtering, that's it. > > Do you consider this use pattern uncommon > > Well, I do, but it doesn't matter whether I do or not for the purposes of > your question. The spec doesn't allow for it at the moment. Got it. Valerio
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