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Commit 819666a0 authored by Olav Morken's avatar Olav Morken
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docs: Some fixes for Scoping documentation.

Thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst for providing this patch!

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......@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ providers specified.
A common use is for a service provider in a hub-and-spoke architecture to
manage its own discovery service and being able to tell the hub/proxy-IdP which
(backend-end) identity provider to use. The standart discovery service in
(backend-end) identity provider to use. The standard discovery service in
SimpleSAMLphp will show the intersection of all the known IdPs and the IdPs
specified in the scoping element. If this intersection only contains on IdP,
specified in the scoping element. If this intersection only contains one IdP,
then the request is automatically forwarded to that IdP.
Scoping is a SAML 2.0 specific option.
......@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ who ultimately authenticates the user. A count of zero permits no proxying. If
ProxyCount is unspecified the number of proxy indirections is not limited.
`IDPList`
: The list of trusted idps ie. the list of entityIDs for identity providers
: The list of trusted IdPs ie. the list of entityIDs for identity providers
that are relevant for a service provider in an authnRequest.
### Note ###
......@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ RequesterID element
-------------------
To allow an identity provider to identify the original requester and the
proxying identity providers, SimpleSAMLphp addes the RequesterID element to
proxying identity providers, SimpleSAMLphp adds the RequesterID element to
the request and if necessary the scoping element even if explicit scoping is
not used.
The RequesterId elements are avaliable from the state array as an array, for
The RequesterId elements are available from the state array as an array, for
instance the authenticate method in an authentication source
$requesterIDs = $state['saml:RequesterID'];
......@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ AuthenticatingAuthority element
-------------------------------
To allow a service provider to identify the authentication authorities that
were involved in the authentication of the user, SimpleSAMLphp addes the
were involved in the authentication of the user, SimpleSAMLphp adds the
AuthenticatingAuthority elements.
The list of authenticating authorities (the AuthenticatingAuthority element)
can be retrived as an array from the authentication data.
can be retrieved as an array from the authentication data.
# Get the authentication source.
$as = new SimpleSAML_Auth_Simple();
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