SAMLError: Missing entity_id specification

[mickjohnson-okta]

Python package pysaml2 version 4.6.1 will return the error SAMLError: Missing entity_id specification.

Downgrading the pysaml version to 4.0.3 allows the SAML assertion to post successfully.

[ctcampbell]

Same here

[nahun]

Looks like the problem was introduced in 4.6.1. I downgraded to 4.6.0 and was fine.

[joelfranusic-okta]

This is very useful, thanks everyone!

[relaxnow]

SAML2 Service Providers should have an entityid, just add the following to the settings ( https://github.com/jpf/okta-pysaml2-example/blob/master/app.py#L97 ):

'entityid': 'https://example.com/sp/metadata', 

Or some unique URL on the applications domain (ideally should point to where metadata xml can be retrieved).

[RiseEarly]

Yeah, downgrading the version worked fine !!..

[afreepenguin]

SAML2 Service Providers should have an entityid, just add the following to the settings ( https://github.com/jpf/okta-pysaml2-example/blob/master/app.py#L97 ):

'entityid': 'https://example.com/sp/metadata', 

Or some unique URL on the applications domain (ideally should point to where metadata xml can be retrieved).

This worked well for me. thanks.

[mydpy]

In case it's unclear, the entityID must match the destination URL / audience URI in the SAML 2.0 settings of the IdP.