Lancaster Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
Lancaster operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and self-publishes its SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor at the canonical /idp/shibboleth location. The entity has been registered with the UK Access Federation since 16 April 2014 and is exported to eduGAIN, so the same signed metadata is retrievable from the federation's MDQ service. Identity federation is institution-operated by definition — no vendor sits between the university and this document. This is the surface class the June 2026 university cohort never catalogued, and for Lancaster it is the second of only two genuinely institution-run machine-readable endpoints.
Lancaster Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata) is one of 5 APIs that Lancaster University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://idp.lancs.ac.uk.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is EntityDescriptor (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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