russellhaering/gosaml2

Pure Go implementation of SAML 2.0

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gosaml2

SAML 2.0 implemementation for Service Providers based on etree and goxmldsig, a pure Go implementation of XML digital signatures.

Installation

Install gosaml2 into your $GOPATH using go get:

go get github.com/russellhaering/gosaml2

Example

See demo.go.

Supported Identity Providers

This library is meant to be a generic SAML implementation. If you find a standards compliant identity provider that it doesn't work with please submit a bug or pull request.

The following identity providers have been tested:

Okta
Auth0
Shibboleth
Ipsilon
OneLogin
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

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