<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you! Your help was wonderful. I verified your input and you are right. So I did upload a new metadata file since I uploaded my meta data a while ago. After the upload of a the new meta data file I also receive the NameId as expected.</div><div>Thank you for your guidance! Top!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-15 14:26 GMT+02:00 Paul Hethmon <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:paul.hethmon@clareitysecurity.com" target="_blank">paul.hethmon@clareitysecurity.com</a>&gt;</span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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The other point to understand is the format string of:
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</span><div>Is not a format.</div>
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<div>It is a way for an SP to convey to an IdP that they do not care what format they receive back. It does not have a meaning like persistent, transient, or email has.</div>
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<div>On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:16 AM, Peter Schober &lt;<a href="mailto:peter.schober@univie.ac.at" target="_blank">peter.schober@univie.ac.at</a>&gt; wrote:</div>
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Format=&quot;urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:unspecified&quot;&gt;MyId&lt;/saml:NameID&gt;*<br>
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<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">Testshib
 only announces support for transient NameIDs, as you can see</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">in
 the Testshib IDP&#39;s metadata.  If you&#39;re requesting something else</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">in
 your SAML2.0 authentication request (my reading of your &quot;I expect&quot;</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">above)
 that would explain the absence of the NameID in your case, but</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">its
 presence in other cases (like in my test with the Testshib SP).</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
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<span style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;white-space:normal">So
 stop requesting a NameID format the IDP does not state it supports,</span><br style="font:14px/normal Helvetica;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">
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</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Paul Hethmon<br>
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