OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

The binding classes are the classes that implement the bindings.  I
don't know what other information to give you.  If those don't hook in
to whatever framework you're going to use to attempt to write an IdP
then you'll need to write your own binding code.

Is there a reason you think you can't write a login handler for Shib? 
The process to do that is far simpler than the process of handling SAML 
2 authentication.

Alexander Müller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> quite a few time ago I implemented a SAML 1.1 IdP which was fairly
> easy - to be honest however with a good share of help from Scott -,
> generating the artifact with SAMLArtifactType0001 and remembering it
> along with the data, then receiving the SAML request from the SP,
> generating the response from the stored data and sending it off.
>
> I am having now a similar project and considered this time
> Shibboleth, however the authentication is a little bit more
> complicated this time and so it appears I would need to write a
> custom extension integrating the authentication into the SAML process
> flow, which doesnt seem to be the easiest part.
>
> Because of that I am currently considering using again OpenSAML
> directly. The artifact generation itself still seems rather easy
> using SAML2ArtifactType0004, however I am running into some
> understanding problems upon receiving and processing the SAML request
> from the Service Provider. Basically I am missing the binding
> classes, I noticed the org.opensaml.*.binding.* packages, but havent
> found any classes/methods which would allow me to extract the SAML
> request from the HTTP request respectively to send off the actual
> SAML response/assertion - as I could with
> SAMLBindingFactory.getInstance(SAMLBinding.SOAP).
>
> I admit I might be lacking some basic understanding of the changes in
> OpenSAML 2, or SAML 2 in general, but I am currently truly lost and
> hope someone could just point me into the right direction, with some
> pseudo code or general hint, given it hasnt got too complex with
> OpenSAML 2.
>
> Thanks, Alexander

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