SAMLAuthenticationController Class

Helper class to perform SAML authentication negotiation for an identity provider and relying party combination. Yields a SAMLAssertion instance that can be used to retrieve temporary, auto-refreshing AWS credentials.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Amazon.SecurityToken.SAML.SAMLAuthenticationController

Namespace: Amazon.SecurityToken.SAML
Assembly: AWSSDK.SecurityToken.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

public class SAMLAuthenticationController

The SAMLAuthenticationController type exposes the following members

Constructors

	Name	Description
	SAMLAuthenticationController()	Instantiates a controller instance configured to use the built-in AD FS classes to authenticate and parse the responses.
	SAMLAuthenticationController(WebProxy)	Instantiates a controller instance configured to use the built-in AD FS classes to authenticate and parse the responses. The supplied proxy settings will be used in the HTTPS calls to the authentication endpoint.
	SAMLAuthenticationController(IAuthenticationController, IAuthenticationResponseParser, WebProxy)	Instantiates the controller to use the specified instances to perform authentication and response parsing.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
AuthenticationController	Amazon.SecurityToken.SAML.IAuthenticationController	Handler that will be called to perform the authentication process to a defined endpoint.
ProxySettings	System.Net.WebProxy	Proxy details if required for communication with the authentication endpoint.
ResponseParser	Amazon.SecurityToken.SAML.IAuthenticationResponseParser	Handler that will be called to parse the response from a succesful authentication request.

Methods

Note:

Asynchronous operations (methods ending with Async) in the table below are for .NET 4.5 or higher. For .NET 3.5 the SDK follows the standard naming convention of BeginMethodName and EndMethodName to indicate asynchronous operations - these method pairs are not shown in the table below.

	Name	Description
	GetSAMLAssertion(string, ICredentials, string)	Authenticates the specified network credentials with a provider endpoint and returns the SAML assertion data from which temporary AWS credentials can be obtained.
	GetSAMLAssertion(Uri, ICredentials, string)	Authenticates the specified network credentials with a provider endpoint and returns the SAML assertion data from which temporary AWS credentials can be obtained.

Version Information

.NET Core App:
Supported in: 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5