- <li> Significantly more flexibility in configuring targets to ensure
- robustness. Failover and redundant configurations are now supported.
- <br>
- <ol>
- <li>The SHAR may now optionally store its session and attribute
- cache in a back-end database in addition to the previously available
- in-memory option. This would allow a site to run an apache server
- farm, with multiple SHARs, supporting the same set of sessions.
- </li>
- <li>Federation supplied files (sites.xml and trust.xml) are now
- refreshed in a much more robust manner. <br>
- </li>
-
- </ol>
- </li>
- <li>Attribute acceptance policies have been greatly enhanced, and now
- supports filtering of attribute values by sites. <br>
- </li>
- <li>The SHAR can be configured to request specific attributes from the
- Origin. <br>
- </li>
+ <li>Significantly more flexibility in configuring targets to ensure
+ robustness. Failover and redundant configurations are now supported.</li>
+ <li>The SHAR may now optionally store its session and attribute cache in a
+ back-end database in addition to the previously available in-memory option.
+ This would allow a site to run an apache server farm, with multiple SHARs,
+ supporting the same set of sessions.</li>
+ <li>Federation supplied files (sites.xml and trust.xml) are now refreshed in
+ a much more robust manner.</li>
+ <li>The SHAR can be configured to request specific attributes from the
+ Origin.</li>
+ <li>The SHAR can use TCP sockets when responding to the Apache module, for
+ specialized deployment behind firewalls. <span class="feature">[1.0.1]</span>
+ </li>
+ <li>Attribute acceptance policies have been greatly enhanced, and are now
+ used to configure all aspects of attribute handling by the target, except
+ for requesting specific attributes by sitename. Adding attributes now takes
+ place in one configuration step. <span class="feature">[1.0.1]</span> </li>
+ <li>Support for Apache 1.3 on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 has been added.
+ <span class="feature">[1.0.1]</span></li>
+ <li>Microsoft IIS web server support has been added via an ISAPI filter and
+ extension. <span class="feature">[1.0.1]</span></li>