<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Chance,<div><br></div><div>It's definitely a general concept in SAML 2.0, most certainly not Shibboleth-specific. Peter's message is generally right on.</div><div><br></div><div>You need the vendor to either:</div><div><br></div><div>A) supply SAML 2.0 Metadata for their SP, in which case you can figure everything out on your own or with our help, or</div><div>B) they need to supply an entityID(named providerId by Shibboleth, a name which might be slightly unique to us, but it's the same thing), an endpoint URL(as they've done), and optionally a target URL where they'd like your users to end up after authentication.</div><div><br></div><div>Odds are the company is not too familiar with the software they're using to offer SAML 2.0 support, but they should be able to find either A or B with (hopefully) any SAML 2.0 implementation in the world.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 1, 2011, at 18:35 , Chance Cox wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I may have mis-interpreted the whole concept here. Im sorry for causing any confusion here but I have no idea what needs to happen here. Basically this company said we don't use shibboleth we have a SAML 2 endpoint. which is the url provided. That is all the gave me. Am i mistaking in thinking that the ProviderId is a shibboleth concept for shibboleth sp?<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>