Federation Security Services Guide › Overview of a SiteMinder Federation Partnership Setup › Set Up Consuming Authority Components › Create Links to Initiate Single Sign-on (optional)

Create Links to Initiate Single Sign-on (optional)

For SAML 2.0 and WS-Federation, if a user visits the consuming authority before visiting the producing authority, you have to establish hard-coded links that redirect the user to the producing authority site to fetch the authentication context, which consists of the characteristics that enable the consuming authority to understand how the user was authenticated.