On 6/27/06, Costello, Roger L. <> wrote:
>
> Question: do all profiles listed in the Profiles Specification depend on the
> involvement of a browser?
The Assertion Query/Request Profile (section 6) does not depend on a
browser. It profiles a back-channel attribute exchange between two
SAML entities.
This profile might be composed with a browser profile to yield
something new but that is not required. For instance, it is possible
to conduct an attribute query as a "standalone query", that is,
totally separate from any browser profile.
Tom
