It is very important that I receive feedback on this question of Shibboleth 
authentication and protected bitstreams. I have not received any news from this 
list as of yet, so please forgive me for reposting.  If your institution uses 
Shib Auth with DSpace, please take a moment to review my question ... any 
related feedback is appreciated greatly! Thanks!

On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Wendy J Bossons wrote:

Hello,

I have been testing Shibboleth for use with our DSpace instance.

Does anyone have protected bitstreams on their shib protected site, which are 
of a size that is above the threshold as set in the dspace.cfg file? If so, 
what is the behavior in the case of a download redirected through the shib 
authentication?

The scenario below specifically describes the question:
An item with one or more above threshold bitstreams where the authorization is 
set at the bitstream level to require authentication. When the unauthenticated 
user clicks on the above threshold bitstream, a redirect and a message takes 
the user to the login page where Shibboleth login is selected.

What behavior should occur in the browser after the login? If it is a bitstream 
that is below the threshold, the bitstream will display in the browser window, 
but since the scenario above describes an above threshold file, the bitstream 
is downloaded as an attachment. What happens in the browser window in that case?

Thank you in advance and looking forward to your response,

..\Wendy

Wendy Bossons
Senior Software Engineer
MIT Libraries
Software Analysis & Development
Building E25-131
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Cambridge, MA 02141-4307
Phone 617-253-0770
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