Thanks for your quick response... On Jun 10, 2013, at 9:28 AM, helix84 <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Richard Sims <r...@bu.edu> wrote: >> Shibboleth configuration has greatly changed since DSpace 1.7. In 3.x there >> is configuration File [dspace]/config/modules/authentication-shibboleth.cfg. >> In it, there is a lazysession.loginurl parameter. Unfortunately, there is no >> useful documentation on the parameter so as to provide any perspective or >> guidance on what value to provide, saying only that it is "The url to start >> a shibboleth session". And no customer examples can be found on the Web. > > Hi Richard, > > in fact, there were no code changes to the Shibboleth module between > DSpace 1.8.2 and 3.0, which you can verify using: > git diff dspace-1.8.2 dspace-3.0 -- > dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authenticate/ShibAuthentication.java As I indicated, I have been attempting to bring our 1.7 implementation up to a 3.1 level. Across that void there have been substantial changes. > > There is also documentation about lazy sessions and it includes the > authentication.shib.lazysession.loginurl parameter: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC3x/Authentication+Plugins#AuthenticationPlugins-ConfiguringShibbolethAuthentication(DSpace1.8.1) That is the documentation I was referencing. It is useless as to this parameter. And its only example is: lazysession.loginurl = /Shibboleth.sso/Login where it is obviously the case that the value is not a URL (no protocol spec up front). The example only obfuscates things further. Attempting to use the file as-is results in the Web browser getting: HTTP Status 404 - /Shibboleth.sso/Login Changing the parameter value and restarting HTTPD and Tomcat make no difference: the error content is exactly the same. > If you need to find out the exact mechanism how it works in DSpace, > you can look at the source (the auth modules are very self-contained): > https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-3.1/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/authenticate/ShibAuthentication.java#L476 Please don't expect DSpace adopters to be Java programmers. It's bad enough that mortals have to delve into trees of XML files to make intricate changes. There needs to be straight-up, useful documentation of DSpace parameters. No one should have to spend hours trying to divine what cryptic parameters are all about. And I say this as someone who has been doing systems work and documentation for 30 years. Frankly, I'm appalled at how primitive DSpace is, and what people have to go through to tailor it. This is not 21st century stuff - it's more like what we went through in the 1980s to configure systems. DSpace is giving open source software a bad reputation in having gross deficiencies like this. > > There is some more documentation about lazy sessions here: > https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB/LazySession > https://aai-demo.switch.ch/lazy/ Again, this is not explaining the DSpace parameter, and is not a substitute for DSpace documentation imparting understanding as it is supposed to. If someone on the mailing list understands this parameter, I would appreciate receiving some perspective on it. > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette Richard Sims Sr. Systems Engineer, Information Services & Technology Boston University T (617)353-8249 r...@bu.edu http://www.bu.edu/tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
