Yale University

Yale University Federation API

SAML 2.0 entity metadata

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GET /idp/shibboleth Retrieve Yale's SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Yale University Identity Metadata Federation API
  description: 'Machine-readable SAML 2.0 identity-federation surface operated by Yale University. The Shibboleth Identity Provider at https://auth.yale.edu publishes a signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for entityID https://auth.yale.edu/idp/shibboleth, declaring OrganizationName "Yale University", shibmd:Scope "yale.edu", and SingleSignOnService endpoints for the Shibboleth 1.0, SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 protocols (HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and SOAP bindings).

    The same entity is registered in the InCommon federation (registrationAuthority https://incommon.org) and is retrievable from InCommon''s per-entity metadata query service, which makes it reachable through eduGAIN interfederation as well. The host resolves inside Yale''s own AWS identity estate (shibboleth-idp-prd.inbound.iam.aws.yale.edu), so this surface is institution-operated by construction — no vendor is running it.

    This is not a REST API and it was never designed as one. It is described here because it is a genuine, verified, machine-readable, institution-operated surface, and because federated identity metadata is the most consistently overlooked programmable artifact a university publishes.'
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Yale University ITS — Identity and Access Management
    url: https://its.yale.edu/
servers:
- url: https://auth.yale.edu
  description: Yale Shibboleth Identity Provider (institution-operated)
tags:
- name: Federation
  description: SAML 2.0 entity metadata
paths:
  /idp/shibboleth:
    get:
      tags:
      - Federation
      operationId: getIdpMetadata
      summary: Retrieve Yale's SAML 2.0 identity provider metadata
      description: Returns the signed SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor for Yale University's Shibboleth Identity Provider, including its signing and encryption key descriptors, supported protocols, SingleSignOnService and ArtifactResolutionService endpoints, the shibmd:Scope asserted for the yale.edu namespace, and the Organization and ContactPerson blocks. Verified 200 with content-type application/xml on 2026-08-19.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor document.
          content:
            application/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: xml
                description: urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata EntityDescriptor with entityID https://auth.yale.edu/idp/shibboleth.
externalDocs:
  description: SAML V2.0 Metadata specification
  url: https://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-metadata-2.0-os.pdf