SAMLResponse Encoding Format?

[Richard Leto]

Hi All,

 

   This might be a repeated question, but I was not able to find a conversation, What is the SAMLResponse Encoding Format siteminder uses?

 

As per the FWSTrace.log "SAML2 Single Sign-On Service sending base64 SAML Response"

So, is it base64 encoding?

Is there is a way to change it to UTF-8 format?

 

Thank you.

[Hongxu Liu]

A SAML protocol message is form-encoded by applying the

base-64 encoding rules to the XML representation of the message and placing the result in a hidden form

control within a form as defined by [HTML401] Section 17. The HTML document MUST adhere to the

XHTML specification, [XHTML]. The base64-encoded value MAY be line-wrapped at a reasonable length

in accordance with common practice.

This is part of SAML specification. You can not and shall not wish to change to UTF-8 format.

Hope this answer your question.

[Richard Leto]

Thanks for your suggestion.