How SAML responses are parsed (not specific to Shib)

[Nick Myers]

Thank you for the pointer to the list Scott.

Definitely not planning to build one, want to understand it a lot more than
I do at the moment.

Best
Nick


On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, 01:12 Cantor, Scott, <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> OASIS runs a list, saml-dev at lists.oasis-open.org, for SAML questions like
> this.
>
> The short answer is that it requires an XML parser to deal with SAML,
> which is a huge topic itself.
>
> You should under no circumstances whatsoever even consider building your
> own SAML implementation at this point. If you want a properly built one,
> there are 3 open source options in 3 different languages (Shibboleth being
> one), and if you want a bad one, there are lots to choose from, some free
> and some not.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
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