'Deep linking' in Shibboleth

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/20/16, 9:55 AM, "users on behalf of Zico" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of mailzico at gmail.com> wrote:



>I am trying to understand what benefit deep linking in Shibboleth can provide us.... so little confused here.

Deep linking is how the web works, it has nothing to do with Shibboleth. Any SSO integration that interferes with deep linking is just broken.

The web's main innovation was to make resources explicitly addressable. That has to work regardless of security and any other consideration. It is literally the most important usability feature of the web.

>Is 'Deep linking' actually 'IDP-initiated SSO'?

It's the opposite.

>I have worked with IDP-initiated SSO but never played with 'deep linking'.

If you've ever clicked a link, you've used deep linking. The web *is* deep linking.

-- Scott