Is it possible to hit the IdP login form directly from a browser?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/11/12 12:22 AM, "Yaowen Tu" <yaowen.tu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Suppose our IdP use "username and password" as authentication method. The
>SingleSignOn request now accepts SAMLRequest and RelayState as two
>parameters. I am thinking to extend it by also accepting "username" and
>"password". In this way if the username
> and password are provided, IdP will automatically tries to login instead
>of showing login screen.

Just use basic-auth and you get the same result.

-- Scott