Why POST the SAMLResponse to the SP and not redirect?

[michaelfranzl]

The provided HTML form auto-POSTs the SAMLResponse on page load (triggered by Javascript). I wonder why this was preferred over a redirect?

References:

https://github.com/lawrencepit/ruby-saml-idp/blob/master/app/controllers/saml_idp/idp_controller.rb#L26
https://github.com/lawrencepit/ruby-saml-idp/blob/master/app/views/saml_idp/idp/saml_post.html.erb

[pdany1116]

Hi @michaelfranzl, did you find an answer? Do you know if a redirect instead of post works?