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There are three metadata clients that meet the basic requirements of a SAML deployment in the InCommon Federation:
- Shibboleth
- simpleSAMLphp
- Microsoft AD FS + pysFEMMA
Shibboleth and simpleSAMLphp are open-source implementations of the SAML Web Browser SSO Profile but both of them will automatically download and verify signed metadata without having to rely on any other tools. Instructions on how to configure Shibboleth or how to configure simpleSAMLphp for metadata consumption are provided elsewhere in this wiki. If you know of other SAML implementations that support SAML metadata, please let us know so we can document that capability here.
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