Assertion Artifact Consumer Service

This service processes the responses that a service provider receives from an identity provider. When a service provider wants to authenticate a user, it sends an authentication request to an identity provider.

• HTTP-Artifact specifies a non-browser SOAP-based protocol.

• HTTP-Post specifies a browser-based HTTP POST protocol.

• PAOS defines the URL location for PAOS binding.

Location specifies the URL of the provider to which the request is sent. Index specifies the URL in the standard metadata. Defaultis the default URL to be used for the binding.