Federation Security Services Guide › Federation Web Services URLs Used by SiteMinder › URLs for Services at the Asserting Party › WSFedDispatcher Service at the RP

WSFedDispatcher Service at the RP

The WSFedDispatcher Service services receives all incoming WS-Federation messages and forwards the request processing to other services based on the query parameter data.

• Default URL for this Service:

  https://rp_server:port/affwebservices/public/wsfeddispatcher

  rp_server:port

  Identifies the web server and port at the Resource Partner hosting the Web Agent Option Pack or SPS federation gateway.

• Field Where URL Entered: Not applicable
• Associated Servlet and Servlet Mapping in Web.xml file

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>wsfeddispatcher</servlet-name>
    <display-name>WS-Federation Dispatcher service</display-name>
    <description>This servlet is the WS-Federation Dispatcher service for all WS-Federation services.</description>
    <servlet-class>com.netegrity.affiliateminder.webservices.wsfed.
       dispatcher</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
  
  

  <<servlet-mapping> 
  <servlet-name>wsfeddispatcher</servlet-name> 
  <url-pattern>/public/wsfeddispatcher/*</url-pattern> 
  </servlet-mapping>
  

The Web.xml File

The Web.xml file lists servlets and URL mappings for the Federation Web Services application.

You cannot change most of this file, but you can modify the URL mappings.

To view the Web.xml file, go to the appropriate file location:

• web_agent_home/affwebservices/WEB-INF
• sps_home/secure-proxy/Tomcat/webapps/affwebservices/WEB-INF