On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:58 PM, William G. Thompson, Jr. <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Marvin Addison
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> enhancing the serviceValidate and proxyValidate responses to include
> the user attributes as additional XML elements does not break CAS client
> library's parsing of the response
> >
> > I suppose my wording was poor.  I meant break in terms of protocol
> > specification not software processing.  You're correct that nothing
> > breaks, but it's simply a fact that most clients have to be modified
> > to handle attributes in the CAS 2.0 protocol response.  Why go to the
> > trouble when SAML is supported out of the box by all the major clients
> > and is a standard besides?
>
> Flexibility and the.opportunity to do the simplest thing that might
> work.  As Andrew noted above some CAS integration scenarios already
> require attributes in the CAS payload.
>
> The SAML1.0 CAS response document is standards based as far as that
> goes.  However, the interaction is not a SAML profile such that it
> would interop out of the box with some other non CAS SAML endpoint.
> The HE SAML community has moved on to SAML2 and all the profiles it
> prescribes.  It's hard to see the benefits of continuing the support
> of the SAML1.0 CAS endpoint if attributes were available in the CAS
> protocol.
>
> Perhaps it's time for CAS Protocol 2.1.
>

Or one of the standard protocols that people are using these days (SAML2,
OpenID2, etc.)

Cheers,
Scott


>
> Best,
> Bill
>
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