# uOttawa Shibboleth Identity Provider (Canadian Access Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/caf-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Ottawa — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-ottawa/  
**Base URL:** https://fca-caf.uottawa.ca/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://it.uottawa.ca/

uOttawa Shibboleth Identity Provider (Canadian Access Federation) is one of 10 APIs that [University of Ottawa](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-ottawa/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, eduGAIN, and CANARIE.

The University of Ottawa's own SAML 2.0 identity provider and its published federation metadata. Probed 2026-09-01: https://fca-caf.uottawa.ca/idp/shibboleth returns HTTP 200 application/xml (7,299 bytes) with entityID https://fca-caf.uottawa.ca/idp, an IDPSSODescriptor, shibmd:Scope uottawa.ca, and SAML 2.0 SSO endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and POST-SimpleSign plus SOAP artifact resolution on port 8443. The entity appears in the eduGAIN aggregate (entity 678487) with registration authority http://www.canarie.ca - the Canadian Access Federation. The host resolves to 137.122.8.144, inside uOttawa's own allocation. This is institution-operated identity infrastructure, not a vendor surface, and it is the strongest machine-readable surface the institution runs.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-ottawa/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-ottawa-caf-idp-saml-metadata-example.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-ottawa/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-ottawa-conformance.yml

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- [uO Research DSpace REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/ruor-rest/)
- [uO Research OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/ruor-oai/)
- [uottawa.ca Content JSON:API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/www-jsonapi/)
- [uOttawa Course Catalogue (CourseLeaf tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/catalogue-courseleaf/)
- [uOttawa Dataverse collection on Borealis](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/borealis-dataverse/)
- [Omni library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/omni-primo/)
- [DataCite membership (UOTT)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/datacite/)
- [Crossref membership (7569, 16151)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/crossref/)
- [ROR registration (03c4mmv16)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-ottawa/ror/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, Shibboleth, SAML, eduGAIN, CANARIE

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