Artifact resolution

[brianmay]

As discussed here: handnot2/samly#28

I would like to be able to use samly with AAF - Australian Access Federation. However registration for AAF requires support for Artifact resolution - at least being my understanding.

The only recommended solution by AAF is to use the Apache shib module, which is a lot of overhead for a docker container and gets confused easily with a Docker environment (been there done that). I would like to be able to attempt to simplify this.

[brianmay]

I think I am getting confused with terminology. SAML, Shibboleth, and federation.

My vague understanding was that Shibboleth = SAML + federation extensions. However this doesn't appear to be correct because this project I believe supports shibboleth but not federation.

Anybody able to clear up my confusion as to what the terms mean?

Thanks

[brianmay]

For that matter, what is an artifact?