Shibboleth - How to read attributes?

attributes shibboleth
Adam Levitt picture Adam Levitt · Aug 29, 2013 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I'm successfully logging into my Service Provider test page with Shibboleth. I then go to the /Shibboleth.sso/Session page and I see the following:

Attributes
affiliation: 1 value(s)
entitlement: 1 value(s)
eppn: 1 value(s)
persistent-id: 1 value(s)
unscoped-affiliation: 1 value(s)

My question is... how do I go about reading these values? I don't see them in the HTTP Request header in Fiddler.

My web application will be implemented in ASP.NET MVC 4 (C#).

Answer

schweerelos picture schweerelos · Jul 2, 2015

You can also set showAttributeValues to true in the Session handler in shibboleth2.xml. Note, this is not recommended in a production environment. Then restart the shibboleth service; the Attributes section of the Session page will include the actual values.

<!-- Session diagnostic service. -->
<Handler type="Session" Location="/Session" showAttributeValues="true"/>

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