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Connecting your custom applications

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Introduction

SAML 2.0 is a complex and not easy to implement standard. There are some libraries that can help somewhat, but a correct implementation needs a deep knowledge of SAML protocol, and is always hard to test and debug.

To make it easier, Soffid provides some JSON rest web services, that can help any application to correctly implement the SAML service provider part of the protocol.

Data flow

The following diagram, shows the resulting data flow between the end user, your application, the identity provider and Soffid web services: