Lancaster University Idp API
The Idp API from Lancaster University — 1 operation(s) for idp.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Lancaster University Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML…
description: Description of the machine-readable surface of Lancaster University's own Shibboleth Identity Provider, derived by probing the live host on 2026-08-30.
version: '2.0'
contact:
name: Lancaster University Information Systems Services
url: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/iss/
license:
name: SAML V2.0 Metadata (OASIS)
url: https://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-metadata-2.0-os.pdf
servers:
- url: https://idp.lancs.ac.uk
description: Lancaster University Shibboleth Identity Provider
tags:
- name: IDP
paths:
/idp/shibboleth:
get:
operationId: getIdpSamlMetadata
summary: Retrieve the IdP's SAML 2.0 metadata
description: 'Returns the Identity Provider''s self-published SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor. Observed 2026-08-30: HTTP 200, application/xml;charset=utf-8, 5341 bytes, entityID "https://idp.lancs.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth". The IDPSSODescriptor advertises protocolSupportEnumeration "urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0 urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:protocol urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" and a shibmd:Scope of lancaster.ac.uk, and carries an X.509 signing certificate with CN=idp.lancs.ac.uk. The bindings it enumerates are HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and HTTP-Redirect SSO under /idp/profile/SAML2/{POST,POST-SimpleSign,Redirect}/SSO, the Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest profile at /idp/profile/Shibboleth/SSO, and SOAP ArtifactResolution and AttributeQuery on port 8443.'
responses:
'200':
description: SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for the Lancaster IdP.
content:
application/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityDescriptor'
tags:
- IDP
components:
schemas:
EntityDescriptor:
type: object
description: SAML 2.0 metadata root element. The wire format is XML; this is a structural sketch of the elements actually observed in Lancaster's document, not a translation of the SAML metadata schema.
properties:
entityID:
type: string
description: Unique identifier of the SAML entity.
example: https://idp.lancs.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
protocolSupportEnumeration:
type: string
description: Space-separated list of protocols the IDPSSODescriptor supports.
example: urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0 urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:protocol urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol
scope:
type: string
description: shibmd:Scope asserted by the IdP for scoped attribute values.
example: lancaster.ac.uk
required:
- entityID
externalDocs:
description: UK Access Federation
url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
x-provenance:
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: Written by API Evangelist from live probes of https://idp.lancs.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth, the UK Access Federation MDQ entity and technical.edugain.org on 2026-08-30. Lancaster University did not publish this description; it describes a surface Lancaster operates.