Encode/Decode AuthnRequestXML

[Peter Schober]

* Day, Peter W <peter.day at emory.edu> [2013-07-19 01:17]:
> For debugging and tracing interactions with Shib IdP and SP, I find
> the following tools useful:

If you don't know what is being sent on the wire (which you can always
get from the logs), yes. But those tools won't tell you what the
message should look like and how to properly en-/decode it (they will
simply fail on non-standard encodings) -- that's what the
specification is for.
-peter