OpenAthens SP to Shibboleth (using OA Federation): Deep Links

[Manoj Kancharla]

Hi Nate,

Yes, here is an example in our context: he user clicks on “Sign in via OpenAthens” link from an article page. I’m doing a redirect to the Shibboleth handler like this: https://{0}/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID={1}&target={2} , where {0) = hostname, {1}=genericEntityID (OA), and {2}=the Url of the page from where the user initiated the login.

What’s happening now is that user is taken to the Athens Authentication Point and (after sign in) user is taken back to the home page : https://{0}/index.aspx<https://%7b0%7d/index.aspx> (instead of the article page)

Am I missing something in terms of configuration or other wise?


Thanks

Manoj

From: users [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Nate Klingenstein
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:45 AM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: OpenAthens SP to Shibboleth (using OA Federation): Deep Links

Manoj,

Do you mean that if the user were accessing:

https://vendor.com/stuff/secured/file.pdf

that the SP is capable of intercepting that request, recording the intended destination URL, sending the user home to authenticate, grabbing the user when they come back, and passing them to the intended destination URL after parsing the inbound token instead of just leaving them at https://vendor.com/home.html?  If so, then that’s exactly how it normally works.

If you meant other things, the answer may still probably require no specific configuration.  There’s lots of ways to do this stuff.

Take care,
Nate.

On Jan 26, 2016, at 08:29, Manoj Kancharla <manojk at silverchair.com<mailto:manojk at silverchair.com>> wrote:

We’re currently in the process of migrating three of our customers from OpenAthens SP to Shibboleth using OA Federation. For one of the clients, there will be users signing in via OpenAthens and some will be signing via UK Federation (Shib)
For the OA implementation, we need to implement deep links. Is there anything that needs to be configured differently (in Shibboleth2.xml) for the deep links to work?

Thanks

Manoj Kancharla
Senior Software Developer | Silverchair Information Systems
Email: manojk at silverchair.com<mailto:manojk at silverchair.com>
Skype: manoj.kancharla1

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