RE: How to provide SAML assertions in RESTful services

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Moehrke, John (GE Healthcare) <>
Date
2010-06-25T16:09:12+00:00
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RE: How to provide SAML assertions in RESTful services
This is the problem... how do I explain how to my RESTful API would
carry the URI? I was hoping that there was a common way to do this, like
there is with WS-Security in the SOAP world.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Howlett [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: Moehrke, John (GE Healthcare); 
> Subject: RE: How to provide SAML assertions in RESTful services
> 
> > I am struggling with how to specify how a SAML assertion
> > would be carried to the relying-party on the RESTful request.
> 
> If the RP can somehow obtain a URI pointing to an assertion (which may
be
> feasible, depending on the application's workflow), you could consider
the
> use of the SAML URI Binding (section 3.7 of SAML Bindings). This is a
pull
> operation, rather than a push.
> 
> HTH, josh.
> 
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