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[Molnár Péter <molnar.peter AT kifu.gov.hu>]

Le 2019. 09. 24. à 9:21, Peter Schober a écrit :
> * Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl> [2019-09-24 09:07]:
> > One could even think the the correct approach is to have people
> > update their fairly ancient schemas rather disallowing something
> > that has been in the standard for 15 years.
> See my statement about SPs deployed in the wild choking on such
> metadata. It's not simply a question of "updating schemas" for a few
> (or only one) federation operator:
>
> This stuff breaks deployments in the wild and the Shibboleth SP
> (should it be the only one) is probably the most often used SAML
> implementation on the globe. So -- contrary to what Davide said -- I'm
> very happy old schemata were used in the software I had at hand
> otherwise we would only have found out about that in a few days (or
> weeks) once Shib SP admins all over the world started asking their
> local federation operator why their SP doesn't know any IDPs anymore.
>
> "People should just update their software so that we can support
> corner cases noone ever asked for" is a possible approach to such
> scenarios. It's certainly not my preferred one, though.
>
> -peter
For now, I think it can be a reasonable practice to introduce an empty 
lang attributes check in our federation.

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