SAML XML

[Chance Cox]

This is a snippet from an email I received this week. This vendor does not want to maintain an SP, however they do have a SAML system setup. Can anyone help me understand if this is possible, and how i would go about doing it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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The way that the SAML framework operates.  When you authenticate a user on your portal, you can provide a link or button there to send send an xml file to a url we would specify.  That xml file will be in the SAML framework – encrypted and would contain the institution ID – Elon – and the user’s username.  That is sufficient for us to authenticate the user.
 
Shibboleth uses SAML and should be able to generate the required xml file.  For more on SAML, see:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language
 
As we don’t have any working knowledge of the implementation of the Shibboleth system, I think you will have to work out on your own how to actually make this happen.  When you are in a position to generate the xml file, let us know and we will provide a URL for you to point to.  We can then begin testing.  We won’t create the url (or rather the processing page behind it) until you are able to generate the xml file as we will need that to know how to interpret and parse it.



Thank You,

-Chance

 
Chance Cox | Elon University
Systems Account Manager | Systems Administration
MSDNAA Representative | Computing Sciences

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