Can you recommend a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider for test?

Question

I\'m implementing a SAML 2.0 Service Provider and need to install a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider for testing. Given this need, the Identity Provider should ideally be free (or hav

Answer 1

I have been struggling with testing SAML2 integration for a long time, and used OpenSSO. Since I discovered OKTA for testing applications http://okta.com/ I haven't looked back. It is perfect, easy to use, and you can also create different users and send custom attributes back to the SP.

OpenSSO is not nice. For start you have those ridiculous captchas which don't even make sense. SSOCircle does not allow you to send custom attributes, it does not allow you to use SHA-256 encryption either, for what I've seen. OpenSSO does not give you any help about error messages unless you pay for their debug functionality (which is probably poor given the rest of the application works poorly).