Shibboleth & Respondus / Blackboard Integration

[Mark Valites]

On May 22, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Peter Schober wrote:

> * Mark Valites <mvalites at buffalo.edu> [2012-05-22 17:37]:
>>> From what I've gathered, Respondus is a stand-alone application
>> that acts like a simple browser that somehow ties into Blackboard.
> 
> It then probably should use ECP instead, at least then you'll only
> have to pay once for getting this added, instead of each time you
> change something with your IdP.

Thanks. I've peeked at the wiki pages & some of the V2.0 profile draft a bit, but not all that deeply, so I apologize if this is obvious from a more thorough reading -

If this application were adjusted to be ECP capable, would both our IdP & the SP need to be ECP capable, or just the SP? It doesn't look like it'd be much to add the simple support to our IdP, but it's still a change & I'm not even sure if we even need to.

I'm also a bit confused over section 2.3.3 of the profile:

The client determines which identity provider is appropriate, possibly influenced by information found in
the <ecp:Request> header block received in the previous step. It is out of scope how the client is
provisioned with identity provider information, but SAML V2.0 metadata [SAML2Meta], or a derivative,
MAY be used.

The seems to imply we'd still have to do something custom with this application to have it aware of our IdP and/or SP.

-Mark