# University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/shibboleth-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Sheffield — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/  
**Base URL:** https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp  
**Documentation:** https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services

University of Sheffield Shibboleth Identity Provider is one of 5 APIs that [University of Sheffield](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, and Authentication. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The institution's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, entityID https://idp.shef.ac.uk/shibboleth, serving live Shibboleth metadata from Sheffield's own domain. Machine-readable, institution-operated by definition, and the access path through which Sheffield affiliates reach every vendor-tenanted service the university buys. Declares HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP bindings for SAML 2.0 SSO and single logout, plus legacy SAML 1.1 endpoints. Verified live 2026-08-30, HTTP 200, application/xml.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Metadata** — https://idp.shef.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sheffield/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-sheffield-conformance.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sheffield/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-sheffield-authentication.yml

## Other University of Sheffield APIs (4)

- [Sheffield Solar API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/sheffield-solar-api/)
- [ORDA — Online Research Data (figshare tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/orda/)
- [White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/wrro-oai/)
- [White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-sheffield/wreo-oai/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, Authentication

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