Re: [saml-dev] supporting the AuthnRequest protocol

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Cantor, Scott <>
Date
2013-03-17T19:23:38+00:00
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Re: [saml-dev] supporting the AuthnRequest protocol
On 3/17/13 3:15 PM, "Tom Scavo" <> wrote:
>
>In metadata, however, the schema requires at least one
>SingleSignOnService endpoint in every IDPSSODescriptor. That's
>unfortunate since it forces every IdP (that relies on metadata) to
>support SP-initiated SSO. An IdP that wishes to support IdP-initiated
>SSO only is out of luck, at least in terms of metadata.

Unless you just define a binding to represent what IdP-initiated SSO
really is, which is just a non-standard binding for a different sort of
request.

>I would call that a bug (in the metadata schema). What do others think?

I think it's irrelevant, since it can't be fixed, but is fortunately an
easily worked around problem.

-- Scott