Shibboleth & Respondus / Blackboard Integration

[Mark Valites]

On May 25, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> On 5/25/12 3:33 PM, "Mark Valites" <mvalites at buffalo.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> If this application were adjusted to be ECP capable, would both our IdP &
>> the SP need to be ECP capable, or just the SP?
> 
> Both, but ECP support is already included in both.

But not active in our implementation...

>> 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.
> 
> The application would have to support ECP, period. That goes beyond that
> one step.
> 
> I don't know enough from what you posted to speculate as to whether this
> makes any sense at all. But non-web apps should not be using browser
> profiles of SAML, and when they do, they tend to break in the ways you
> described, so it's certainly possible.


If the ECP application is to communicate with our SP & IdP, I assume it'll need some metadata for info about them, to establish trust, etc -

IdPs & SPs have nice, clean ways to define their metadata source - how's an ECP application do this? Can the application creator specify a source of metadata in the same ways as the IdPs & SPs can?