error in UA-NIH federation?

[Cantor, Scott]

> Some time ago we set up federation via InC with NIH.  Looking recently to
> add applications, I find that the link to our institutional login at
> https://nihlogin.nih.gov/NIHfederation/ViewFederatedUniversities.aspx has
> the following link:
> 
> 
> https://idp.alaska.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO?shire=https://nihlogin.
> nih.gov/affwebservices/public/samlcc&target=https://nihlogin.nih.gov/Fede
> rationPortal/Portal.asp&providerId=https://federation.nih.gov/FederationG
> ateway

Well, that's totally wrong. It's a legacy Shibboleth 1.x request format being sent to a SAML 2 POST endpoint.

> I must be mis-reading these as they appear to me superficially contradictory.

I don't know what you think is contradictory.

-- Scott