entityID format

[Rhys Smith]

On 7 Oct 2016, at 07:30, Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:
> 
> I'm on-boarding a new SP named "e-Builder".  They aren't members of InCommon, so they sent me their metadata.xml file directly.  It begins with:
> 
> <md:EntityDescriptor ID="_mKch.03nGrlMcKptFQIJa8c6dg" cacheDuration="PT1440M" entityID="sso.e-builder.net" xmlns:md="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">
> 
> Is that an allowed entityID format?

Nope.


> It looked odd to me, so I read the SAML spec for a while.  It seems to say that a URI (1024 character length max) is required for the entityID.  My understanding is that a URI needs to begin with a scheme.  Should I hassle this vendor about it?

Yep.

HTH,
Rhys.
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