How to display SAML assertion from GetAssertion

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/3/13, 5:20 AM, "nibiau at free.fr" <nibiau at free.fr> wrote:

>I have configured the Shibboleth SP over apache2 .
>I have configured the different exports to activate the GetAssertion url
>to get the SAML assertion.
>The GetAssertion url is well usable and I can get a content from it.
>But I don't understand how is encoded the message.
>Indeed , for me the message should be only base 64 encoded but I tried to
>decodeBase64 the message but it doesn't work.
>Moreover , in the HTTP header I can see : Content-Encoding: gzip

That would be the work of your web server, the SP isn't doing any
encoding. It's just raw XML, and the MIME type should be appropriate per
the SAML specification.

So I would assume you need to fix your web server to stop encoding that if
your client can't handle it.

-- Scott