Re: [saml-dev] returning the "_saml_idp" cookie to the SP

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Cantor, Scott <>
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2012-08-18T00:45:44+00:00
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Re: [saml-dev] returning the "_saml_idp" cookie to the SP
On 8/17/12 8:20 PM, "Tom Scavo" <> wrote:

>In the "Identity Provider Discovery Profile" in SAML2Prof, it's not
>exactly clear what is returned by the DS to the SP.

The default policy is that it returns an entityID in a named parameter (or
nothing) and that's it.

> Is it reasonable
>to suppose the entire value of the "_saml_idp" cookie is returned as
>the value of an HTTP parameter?

If you define a policy constant to mean that, pass it to the DS, and
implement that in the DS. With the default policy, no, that would not be
correct.

-- Scott