Authentication using ECP

[Eddie Harari]

I have setup SP and IDP to use ECP and I am using a bash script using
curl as a client and it works.

When i use a browser as client, the SP "redirects" the browser to the
IDP using http redirect, I then put the username and password into the
idp "login page" and the idp is configured to check these credentials
using ldap connector. (WORKS FINE ).

When i use the bash client i configured my tomcat to protect the URI
/idp/profile/SAML2/SOAP/ECP using http basic authentication. (this
works as well).

is there a way that the idp will check ECP supplied credentials using
LDAP instead of http basic authentication ?

I understood from the documentation that the only way to pass the user
credentials to the ECP handler is using http authentication , is that
correct ?

thanks ,

Eddie.