Federation Security Services Guide › Overview of a SiteMinder Federation Partnership Setup › Set Up Producing Authority Components › Create Links to Target Resources (optional) › Initiate WS-Federation Single Sign-on at the Account Partner

Initiate WS-Federation Single Sign-on at the Account Partner

To initiate WS-Federation single sign-on, a user clicks on a page with hard-coded HTML link that directs the user's browser to the Single Sign-on Service at the Account Partner. The Account Partner then redirects the user to the Resource Partner.

The link that initiates single sign-on can be included at any site, but it must always first direct the user to the Account Partner.

The syntax for the link is:

https://AP:port/affwebservices/public/wsfedsso?wa=wsignin1.0&wtrealm=RP_ID

• ap_server:port

  Specifies the server and port number of the system at the Account Partner that is hosting the Web Agent Option Pack or the SPS federation gateway, depending on which component is installed in your federation network.

Note: You do not need to HTTP-encode the query parameters.