Shibboleth Developers

["Josh Howlett" <>]

I'm trying to ascertain what would be involved in writing a handler that
could consume a SAML authentication assertion in order to authenticate a
user.

I read that "[t]he incoming request to the handler will contain the SAML
2 authentication request representing this request"; I am struggling to
understand what a SAML 2 authentication request representing a SAML 2
authentication assertion would look like.

Is this something that could be achieved without too much pain?

josh.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad La Joie 
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> Sent: 20 April 2007 15:22
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> Subject: Re: Shibboleth 2.0 authentication API
> 
> No, not yet.  We have not yet written any developer 
> documentation for Shibboleth 2.0.
> 
> Josh Howlett wrote:
> > I believe that there's a new authentication API in 
> Shibboleth 2.0. I 
> > can find a brief mention of this in ShibTwoRoadmap, which 
> also links 
> > to a thread back in Nov 2006. However, I'm interested in a bit more 
> > information; is there any other documentation on the API that I can 
> > refer to?
> > 
> > josh.
> 
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