I have been working with SAML for a while now and I have always used Firefox for debugging instead of my favorite browser, Chrome. Why? you ask. Because there is a plugin called SAML tracer on firefox that is excellent for viewing the SAML messages going across the browser. There have been no such plugin for Chrome. …

If you are just starting out trying to understand SAML you will come across the term SAML Assertion quite quickly. In this post or tutorial, I will try to explain to you what a SAML Assertion is and give you some examples on how they could look. This post mainly looks at the SAML Assertion in the perspective of the …

What is it? The SAML Web Browser SSO Profile is one of the profiles defined in the SAML specification. As described in my introductory post on SAML, profiles describes how to fulfill a specific use-case using SAML. In the realm of user authentication using SAML, the Web Browser Profile is very frequently used. The …

Information and example on how to sign and send authnrequests in OpenSAML

Information and example on how to sign and send authnrequests in OpenSAML