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List:       shibboleth-users
Subject:    Re: Attribute resolver and failed data connector
From:       Alan Buxey <alan.buxey () myunidays ! com>
Date:       2017-07-31 8:00:02
Message-ID: CAObj+SUhMJ=nVebVP__FPT2HUd8ket=3wo6VrtQdNNzbZNoh5A () mail ! gmail ! com
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in the UK, Jisc run shibboleth courses, in the US, InCommon run
courses - you might be able to attend those?

alan

On 29 July 2017 at 02:41, William Holcomb <wjh@fischerinternational.com> wrote:
> I am new on the scene.  Who can point me to courses to learn Shibboleth/SSO?  \
> Thanks in advance! 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 10:06 AM
> To: Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net>
> Subject: Re: Attribute resolver and failed data connector
> 
> On 7/28/17, 9:38 AM, "users on behalf of Michael A Grady" \
> <users-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of mgrady@unicon.net> wrote: 
> > That error causes the resolver to end up without an "Attribute
> > Context", even though the LDAP connector succeeded and pulled in attributes.
> 
> The way it has always worked, a true "error" in any connector or definition fails \
> the entire process, never just one thing. The reason is that we have no way to know \
> whether the failure has a corrupting influence on the rest of the data being \
> returned. 
> There is a lot of inconsistency over the failure/error behavior in the individual \
> connectors, and I hope we get that fixed at some point with a higher level setting \
> that just allows any connector's errors to be masked. Without that, you pretty much \
> need failovers in place. 
> We have decent control over mapping result set sizes to success/failure, but not \
> the failure modes. 
> Also, note that it's possible to fail requests to the IdP if the resolver throws. \
> That's a property setting. 
> -- Scott
> 
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