Category Archives: OpenID

simpleSAMLphp version 1.6 was made available earlier this summer. This release note was somewhat delayed here at rnd.feide.no, due to the fact that I was out of office.

Documentation is available at:

• http://simplesamlphp.org/docs/1.6/

Changes include:

• Support for HTTP-Artifact binding on both IdP and SP (thanks to Danny Bollaert, Shoaib Ali and Bill Young).
• Better error reporting from single logout on the IdP- it will now respond with the correct error code to SPs.
• OpenID 2.0 support.
• Better support for specifying parameters in the SAML 2 authentication request.
• Error page when the user accesses the IdP with cookies disabled.

Also, several bug fixes and other changes. See the changelog for more details:

• http://simplesamlphp.org/docs/1.6/simplesamlphp-changelog

If you are upgrading from a previous version of simpleSAMLphp, you should have a look at the upgrade notes, as they list changes that may break existing installations:

• http://simplesamlphp.org/docs/1.6/simplesamlphp-upgrade-notes-1.6

We’ve added support for including custom links on the login page, without modifying the theme. This support is already enabled in the subversion version of simpleSAMLphp.

In authsources.php, you may add links by doing something like this:

    'core:loginpage_links' => array(
        array(
            'href' => SimpleSAML_Module::getModuleURL('openid/openidtest.php'),
            'text' => '{openid:dictopenid:openidtestpage}',
        ),
        array(
            'href' => 'http://uninett.no',
            'text' => array('en' => 'UNINETT Home page', 'no' => 'UNINETT sin hjemmeside'),
        ),
    )