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Specify the Session Provider Service

The session provider service is a service at the producer that the SAML Affiliate Agent uses to synchronize the consumer session with the producer session. If you are using a shared session model for federated communication, you need to provide the SAML Affiliate Agent with the URL for this service.

The SessionProviderService element specifies the URL for the session service at the named producer.

Enter a URL path to specify the service. It must be a URL over an SSL connection. For example:

<SessionProviderService>https://secure.producer.domain.com:81/affwebservices/router/session</SessionProviderService>

The affwebservices/router/session portion of this URL is the default installation directory of the Federation Web Services application, which is installed with the Web Agent Option Pack for the producer-side Web Agent. If you install the Option Pack in a non-default location, be sure the correct location is reflected in this URL.