Relaystate functionality on shibboleth IdP side

[Peter Schober]

* Surinaidu Majji <pioneer.suri at gmail.com> [2015-10-12 07:24]:
> Question: How this relaystate will be used at Shibboleth IdP side?
> will it be stored in cookie?

Why does that matter to you?

> Question: Why shibboleth IdP is sending "relaystate" as a part of
> response, what is the main intention of that?

Because the SAML specs mandate that the IDP does that, if it received
one in a request. Cf. Bindings, section 3.1.1 for a start.
(Also Profiles, 4.1.3.1)
-peter