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Re:A Gentle Introduction to SAML by rkeene2 on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:07PM (#41039819)
I see this comment often, but when I implemented SAML, the spec wasn't too unreadable... I did write my own IdP [0] instead of using something that existed though, since those were more complicated than I needed.

So maybe because I only implemented features I was using it wasn't bad. What did you struggle with?

[0] https://github.com/rkeene/saml-idp/blob/master/lib/saml/saml...

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Re:A Gentle Introduction to SAML by recursive on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:01PM (#41051429)
When I tried to do this, I was looking at an OASIS spec I think? Several hundred pages? I found it to be quite impenetrable. Mainly because of all the jargon. It was all defined of course, but just in terms of other jargon. It was a bit like trying to understand monads by reading wikipedia. In the end I spent about a month on the project, with basically nothing to show for it. If GPT had existed at the time, I probably could have gotten enough of a foothold using AI conversations to understand the spec.
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