SAML Client For Android?

I'm working on a project which needs to parse some data from some protected web pages. In order to gain the access those pages, I have to overcome a SAML authetication form (Shibbo

Solution 1:

I think OpenSAML is your best bet for handling the SAML part and then maybe HttpClient for the things you normally will do in a browser. But there will be quite som work implementing this. There is nothing lightweight about SAML.

OpenSAML is just a library helping with processing of SAML messages so it is probably good for very customised stuff like this.

Solution 2:

After some research, I ended up building it on my own. I carefully followed every redirect, and took note of every cookie created, edited or deleted (Opera, with its in-built option which allows to switch off redirects was the key). The result was a flow which then I replicated in a package ad hoc: the SetUpConnection class, whose task was connecting to the host and keeping track of the cookies. SAML class, which replicated the SAML flow, and finally the Main class, from which I can gather useful information.

Hope it helps.