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Open Format Cookie

The federation open format cookie lets applications assert user attributes to Federation Manager and consume user attributes encapsulated by Federation Manager. The open format cookie has the following general characteristics:

• The cookie is accessible by applications written in any programming language.
• The cookie content consists of a string of UTF-8 bytes, which supports international character sets.
• The combined size in UTF-8 bytes of each name/value pair precedes the name/value pair.
• Space characters are added for legibility.
• The cookie is simple to parse and easily extensible.

The open format cookie contains the following information:

• Cookie Version
• Name ID
• Name ID Format
• Session ID
• AuthnContext
• UserDN (same as User ID)