https://usertest.sciquest.com and specifying acsIndex

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Aug 26 18:54:29 EDT 2019


On 8/26/19, 5:13 PM, "users on behalf of Wessel, Keith" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Nope, the SP I was having trouble with was Web of Science from Thompson Reuters, and it was a completely different
> issue: SP requesting response endpoint by index rather than URL, and the ACS index they were requesting doesn't exist
> in their InCommon metadata.

I assumed it was the same issue, sorry, thought you had said SciQuest.

> David, you would have to examine the authn request to confirm, but it sounds like they might not be requesting any ACS
> endpoint and thus the IdP is falling through to the default. None are marked as default in the InCommon metadata. So,
> and Scott can confirm, I think the IdP picks the first one if the SP doesn't specify one and none are marked in metadata
> as default.

Yes, first one is the default by spec.

-- Scott




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