IDP Initiated doubt on nameID

[Peter Schober]

* Lalith Jayaweera <ljayaweera at gmail.com> [2019-04-08 08:23]:
> We got a SP which works with SP initiated way, however use of IDP Initiated
> can reduce some intermediate page and can enhance the user experience
> 
> So I tried the IdP Initiated way, but it failed.

The IDP shouldn't differ in its behaviour depending on where the
request initiated. In both cases metadata for the SP will be consulted
and the same attributes and NameIDs should be released.

That doesn't help you to determine why you see this difference, of
course.

-peter