RE: [saml-dev] Empty Target Value Acceptable in SAML 1.1?

Scott Cantor wrote on 1/15/2005, 2:39 PM:
 >
 > As a guideline, I think a 2.0 SP should always have a "default" place
 > to go
 > if a response comes in with no relay state. The spec says that the IdP
 > can
 > send some kind of predefined string, but I'm not sure how useful that
 > really
 > is.

Note that the SP also has a "safer" option of using a cookie that only
goes from its site to the browser and back, without going to the IdP.

Personally, I think that the cookie would be the preferred method
for most SPs and the relaystate would be unspecified.

Conor