RE: [security-services] Web SSO <AuthnRequest> conformance

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Scott Cantor <>
Date
2004-10-26T17:57:33+00:00
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RE: [security-services] Web SSO <AuthnRequest> conformance
> Recognizing the size restrictions for redirects (I think it's 
> around 2k for IE), since HTTP redirect is the only binding 
> required, a conformant implementation CANNOT handle authn 
> requests that are greater than 2k.

I believe POST is also required. Am I wrong?

> Was the reasoning based on 
> the chance that authn requests (which would be b64 encoded 
> and then url encoded), would not reach this size?

My assumption was we required POST to handle that case.
 
-- Scott