OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> How can I build a SAML artifact request which SP will use to 
> POST to IdP, by using OpenSAML?

You can build it manually with constructors just like any other SAML
construct, or you can build around the SAMLBrowserProfile API in the 1.1
version which handles all that for you if you give it the necessary
callbacks, including a binding and a mapping process to locate the IdP
endpoint from the artifact.

2.0 will build in metadata support to make the mapping process inherent, but
in 1.1 it's an explicit interface.

> But I cannot find AssertionArtifact from OpenSAML.. Does it 
> support Browser/Artifact profile? 

AssertionArtifact is buried inside the SAMLRequest class as one of the
options for it. You can build a request with a set of artifacts as the input
to the constructor.

-- Scott