Re: [saml-dev] Load balancing with SAML2

["Tom Scavo" <trscavo@gmail.com>]

Perhaps this is a use case for <thrpty:RespondTo> as described in this spec:

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/security/ProtocolExtThirdParty

Hope this helps,
Tom

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM,  <valerie.bauche@bull.net> wrote:
>
> I want to protect an application which is load balanced. So I have multiple
> instance of the application and then multiple instances of the SAML Service
> Provider.
> From the external, only 1 URL is known and its the load balancer job to tell
> to which server it will be sent.
> If the SP redirect the user to an IDP with an authnrequest, the IDP will
> send the response to the SP URL (the same for all SPs), but the load
> balancer can decide to send this response to any SP available.
> So a SP can receive a response intended for another one....
> Does anybody have already think about this kind of problem ?
>
> Valerie