Re: [security-services] How does Shib WAYF work? (was: Re:[security-services] IdP Discovery)

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <rlmorgan@washington.edu>]

> https://authdev.it.ohio-state.edu/twiki/bin/view/Shibboleth/WAYFDev

Note that my answers in the previous note were about the current WAYF, not 
about the new WAYF features in the above dev plan.

Also ...

> 2. The only info the WAYF gets from an SP, at time of redirecting a UA 
> to the WAYF, is the SP's entityID, yes? Is the Shib notion of an 
> entityID congruent with SAMLv2's ProviderID? If not what are salient 
> differences?

I think entityIDs are just ProviderIDs, but Scott would have to confirm.

  - RL "Bob"