Hi David,

> Thanks for sending this, I've forwarded it to our e-resources librarian so he's aware of the situation - apparently our links don't use the exact formats below but he's on guard.

Thanks indeed for that. At the moment we're only worried about these 
ones being used in portal pages: it's not a problem if the URLs appear 
transiently in the address bar when you're going through the WAYF in the 
normal manner (of course, they'll stop appearing there, too, when the 
WAYF / Discovery Service is upgraded)

> Has this gone onto any JISC library list? I suspect other librarians who don't monitor the entire shibboleth list may need to be informed (seems to be up my man Scott's street).

To both lis-e-resources and to JISC-SHIBBOLETH-LIBRARIES - which I hope 
should cover it....

Cheers

Steve

> Dave
>
> David Perry
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> * * * Think about the environment - Do you really need to print this email?>>> Steve Glover <[log in to unmask]> 10/12/2012 19:11 >>>
> Hi,
>
> First of all, apologies for cross-posting.
>
> We will be upgrading the UK federation's central discovery service
> ("WAYF") in the near future. As a consequence of this, certain
> unsupported WAYF contexts referenced in some "WAYFless" URLs will cease
> to operate.
>
> In particular, links of the form
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/DS001/uk.ds?shire=https://sp.acme.com/endpoint&target=http://www.acme.com/resource&providerId=https://sp.acme.com/entity&origin=https://idp.rummidge.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/DS002/uk.ds?shire=https://sp.acme.com/endpoint&target=http://www.acme.com/resource&providerId=https://sp.acme.com/entity&origin=https://idp.rummidge.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
>
> or
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/shibboleth-wayf/uk.wayf?shire=https://sp.acme.com/endpoint&target=http://www.acme.com/resource&providerId=https://sp.acme.com/entity&origin=https://idp.rummidge.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
>
> containing "DS001", "DS002" or "shibboleth-wayf" will no longer work.
>
> In general, these links will have acted in some ways as if they were
> WAYFless URLs - presenting the user with their own institutional login
> screen, after which they're taken to the resource they wish to access -
> however, the link will have been directed through the federation's
> discovery service, and if that changes then the link stops working.
>
> (We have also found examples of similar links that do not have a value
> for the origin - which should have been the IdP's entityID - and users
> of these links will have been taken to the federation WAYF to select
> their organisation in any case)
>
> We would be very grateful if anyone reading this who is responsible for
> the curation of links from library portal pages to federated resources
> could please check for the presence of links beginning with
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/DS001/
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/DS002/
>
> or
>
> https://wayf.ukfederation.org.uk/shibboleth-wayf
>
> and then contact us on "service at ukfederation.org.uk" to arrange for a
> replacement.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Glover, UK federation support.
>


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