I have been struggling for the past few days trying to get my Java program to properly build and encode a SAML 2.0 Authentication Request that should initiate a Single Sign-on event with a SAML 2.0 capable Identity Provider.
I was having problems with the Java library that I was using to DEFLATE the authentication request before I sent it to the IdP. I found a great SAML debug tool that helped me out immensely.
Here it is below:
