'Deep linking' in Shibboleth

[Zico]

Thanks for your awesome responses.. Walter, Cantor and Eric!

So, please allow me to ask the second question. Anyone has any link / doc
how this might integrate in IDP?

The reason i am asking because... so far I knew that, IDP can talk to SP
through metadata ( and, that link which is included in entityID ). So how
is it possible to override that entityID location with another more
specific SP's link?



On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Eric Goodman <Eric.Goodman at ucop.edu>
wrote:

> In case the question was more about defining what a deep link is (rather
> than just why it’s a good thing): deep linking means allowing users to go
> to (or bookmark) arbitrary web pages and having authentication happen
> through that interaction, rather than having to go specifically to
> dedicated login page to get access to a site.
>
>
>
> A non-deep link-supporting setup might require all users to go to
> http://myapp.example.com/login.html before they can go anywhere else in
> the app. If the user goes to a page like
> http://myapp.example.com/secure/myfavoritepage.html directly while
> unauthenticated, they will likely get an “access denied” error of some
> sort.
>
>
>
> Deep linking would support the user going directly to the
> “myfavoritepage.html” url, getting directed to their IdP (including
> selecting it IdP through discovery, etc.) and then after being
> authenticated being redirecting the user back to the page they originally
> tried to access.
>
>
>
> --- Eric
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] *On Behalf Of *Zico
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 20, 2016 6:56 AM
> *To:* Shib Users
> *Subject:* 'Deep linking' in Shibboleth
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand what benefit deep linking in Shibboleth can
> provide us.... so little confused here.
>
>
>
> Is 'Deep linking' actually 'IDP-initiated SSO'?
>
> I have worked with IDP-initiated SSO but never played with 'deep linking'.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Best,
> Zico
>
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Best,
Zico
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