Real Property Management: IdP-initiated SSO using WIF

After quite a bit of struggle that stemmed from my improper serialization of the SAML token and its digital signature (every byte matters!), I was able to concoct a SAML message using WIF that I was then able to submit to PingFederate 6.3. Once my whitespace was where it needed to be, PingFederate happily accepted my IdP-initiated SSO message :)

This code isn't rocket science, but it might save you a bit of time. (Though it's not groud breaking, keep in mind that I'm the copyright holder. You're free to use it under the turns of the GPL, which all code I post on my blog is governed by unless stated otherwise). If you have questions, shoot them my way.

Web Form

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" 
    CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<html>
<head><title>IdP-initiated SSO using WIF</title></head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server" action="https://localhost:9031/sp/ACS.saml2">     
        <input type="text" style="width: 400px" name="RelayState" 
            value="http://localhost/SpSample/?foo=bar" /> 
        <input type="hidden" name="SAMLResponse" id="SAMLResponse" runat="server" />
        <input type="submit"/>                
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Web Form's Code Behind

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IdentityModel.Tokens;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.SecurityTokenService;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.Saml2;

using SecurityTokenTypes = Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityTokenTypes;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    #region Configuration Information

    private const int tokenLifetime = 1; // In minutes.
    private const string issuer = "localhost:default:idp:entityId";

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Courtesy:http://travisspencer.com/blog/2010/09/idp-initiated-sso-using-wif.html