...
This page (and its child pages) show how to configure specific metadata clients. For more general configuration guidance, see the Metadata Consumption wiki page.
Terminology. A metadata consumer is a SAML software implementation plus a metadata client. The latter may be distributed with the SAML implementation itself or by a 3rd party.
There are three metadata clients consumers that meet the basic requirements of a SAML deployment in the InCommon Federation:
...
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 third-party 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.
...