SPPostSignatureFormAuthenticator

As of PicketLink v2.1, the ServiceProviderAuthenticator is the preferred Service Provider configuration to the deprecated SPPostFormAuthenticator, SPRedirectFormAuthenticator, SPPostSignatureFormAuthenticator andSPRedirectSignatureFormAuthenticator.

SPPostSignatureFormAuthenticator is used to provide signature/encryption services to a Service Provider (SP) application for HTTP/POST binding of SAMLv2 specification. This authenticator

is an extension of the SPPostFormAuthenticator.

Binding

HTTP/POST Binding (along with signature/encryption support)

Configuration

JBoss Application Server v5.x/6

Configure in WEB-INF/context.xml

Apache Tomcat v5.5/6.x

Configure in META-INF/context.xml

Example:

context.xml

<Context>
  <Valve className="org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.sp.SPPostSignatureFormAuthenticator"
  />
</Context>

Attributes

#	Name	Type	Objective	Since
1	configFile	String	optional - fully qualified location of the config file Default: /WEB-INF/picketlink-idfed.xml	2.0
2	samlHandlerChainClass	String	optional - fqn of a custom SAMLHandlerChain implementation	2.0
3	serviceURL	String	optional - the service provider URL	2.0
4	saveRestoreRequest	boolean	should the authenticator save the original request and restore it after authentication Default: true	2.0
5	configProvider	String	optional - a fqn of the SAMLConfigurationProvider implementation	2.0
6	issuerID	String	optional - customize the issuer id	2.0
7	idpAddress	String	optional - If the request.getRemoteAddr is not exactly the IDP address that you have keyed in your deployment descriptor for keystore alias, you can configure it explicitly	2.0