Re: [saml-dev] discovery?

On 3/30/06, John Merrells <> wrote:
>
> Are there any defined ways for the RP to find out the 'name' of the
> User's IdP?
> (Shared cookie? User type's it into a form? Bit of code on the client
> machine?)

All of these have been tried.  If the IdP Discovery Profile doesn't
work for you (which is likely), you'll have to profile your own
solution (depending on your particular use case).  IdP Discovery is a
hard problem.

Tom