The Shibboleth IdP V4 software will leave support on September 1, 2024.

ProfileConfiguration-Artifact

Options common to SAML profiles that may transmit messages via SAML Artifact (a pass by reference instead of value, followed by a callback).

Name

Type

Default

Description

Name

Type

Default

Description

artifactConfiguration

SAMLArtifactConfiguration

Bean named shibboleth.DefaultArtifactConfiguration

Customizes the use of SAML artifacts

Guidance

You shouldn't really need to modify this, as artifacts are rarely used anymore, and if they are, the default configuration suffices. The main reason you might change it is to switch a SAML 1.1 SSO configuration from Type 1 to Type 2 artifacts, but that's very obscure. If it ever comes up, we will provide an example.

With SAML 2.0, there is a valid case for customizing the configuration on a per-node basis by exposing dedicated resolution endpoints on each node, and making sure a node issues artifacts that will be resolved by that node. This is already exposed for you via the idp.artifact.endpointIndex property.