Subject in AuthnRequest

Peter Schober peter.schober at univie.ac.at
Thu Mar 14 08:26:10 EDT 2013


* Jurgen Van Oosterwijck <jurgen.vanoosterwijck at gmail.com> [2013-03-14 13:01]:
> Thanks for that info.
> 
> I had indeed already seen that thread. It implies that it is not
> possible to include a Subject element with a dynamically injected
> local username?

I can only repeat what Scott already said there.

Yes. Only for the parameters which the SP exposes.
(Seems setting a subject in an authentication request is not a very
common thing to do. No idea how useful it actually is.)

> Also, that the only possible solution would then be to use an API to
> generate that request myself e.g. in my application code?

Yes. IMHO you wouldn't need an API for generating a few static lines
of XML with a couple of variables replaced within, but how you do that
is really up to you.
-peter


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