UK federation Test Service Provider

This test service provider allows you to see the attributes your identity provider is releasing. The privacy policy for this SP is here.

The SAML entityID for this service is https://test.ukfederation.org.uk/entity.

Start a login flow by choosing one of the following session initiators:

• Default DS flow with the Seamless Access Discovery Service - will test SAML 2.0 interaction with your IdP
  • This session initiator will explicitly use the SAML2 Artifact profile if your IdP is configured to support it
• Default DS flow with OpenAthens Wayfinder Discovery Service - will test SAML 2.0 interaction with your IdP
  • This session initiator will explicitly use the SAML2 Artifact profile if your IdP is configured to support it

The legacy SAML 1.1 initiators simulating SPs using the WAYF protocol are now disabled.

Detailed information about how to test your IdP is available elsewhere on this site. In short, focus on testing against the first one. The second is a less common use cases, but we recommend you test against that too.

If your IdP has been "hidden from discovery" you will have to enable Debug mode for OpenAthens Wayfinder and then use the DS flow with OpenAthens Wayfinder Discovery Service, you will then see a Debug option appear, IdPs will now be visible to select. Seamless Access Discovery Service does not currently offer an option to show hidden IdPs.

Alternatively, you could create a WAYFLess URL for your hidden IdP.

Additional session initiators

The following additional session initiators are for UK federation internal use only. There is no guarantee that they will do anything useful at any given time.

• iay.org.uk Shib 2 SAML 2 or Shib 1
• iay.org.uk Shib 2 force Shib 1