OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

rangeli nepal wrote on 2010-02-22:
> "URIs are a protocol-independent means of referring to a resource. This
> binding is not a general SAML request/response binding, but rather
> supports the encapsulation of a <samlp:AssertionIDRequest> message with
> a single <saml:AssertionIDRef> into the resolution of a URI. The result
> of a successful request is a SAML <saml:Assertion> element (but not a
> complete SAML response)."

In other words, it takes what would normally be a request message and turns
it into a URI with no other XML involved.

> I thought this means I need to retrieve Assertion using
AssertionIDRequest.

That's the alternative to this binding. Please take further spec questions
to saml-dev, rather than this list.

-- Scott