Providing Personalization With Policy-Based Response Attributes

Header attributes can also be determined by OpenSSO Enterprise policy configurations. With policy-based response attributes you can define attribute-value pairs at each policy.

Policy-based response attributes can improve the deployment process, allow greater flexibility in terms of customization, and provide central and hierarchical control of attribute values.

Web agents set policy-based response attributes as headers or cookies based on configuration. All subjects that match this attribute set obtain this attribute. The web agent property labeled Response Attribute Fetch Mode (Tab: Application, Name: com.sun.identity.agents.config.response.attribute.fetch.mode) controls this functionality:

The default setting for this property is HTTP_HEADER. However, this property can be set to any of the following values:

• NONE

• HTTP_HEADER

• HTTP_COOKIE

Attribute mapping is available for response attributes. Therefore, the format of policy information can be mapped to the format of a header or a cookie. The property labeled Response Attribute Map (Tab: Application, Name: com.sun.identity.agents.config.response.attribute.mapping) is used for this type of mapping:

Unlike profile attributes and session attributes, where only the mapped attributes are displayed as headers or cookies, by default, response attributes are set by the agent as headers or cookies based on the setting of the Response Attribute Fetch Mode property.

If a response attribute map is specified, then the corresponding attribute mapped name is fetched from the map and its corresponding value is displayed as either a header or a cookie based on the setting of the above property.