Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)
The university's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. entityID https://idp.vuw.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope vuw.ac.nz, metadata served unauthenticated over HTTPS GET and republished in the signed Tuakiri (New Zealand Access Federation) aggregate, where it has been registered since 2012-06-26 and from where it reaches eduGAIN. Carries the REFEDS Research & Scholarship entity category and a REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. Advertises SAML2 HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP single sign-on, HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect single logout, persistent and transient NameID formats, and an eduPerson/SCHAC/auEduPerson attribute release including mail, schacHomeOrganization, schacHomeOrganizationType and auEduPersonSharedToken. This is institution-operated by definition and is the university's strongest machine-readable asset.
Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN) is one of 10 APIs that Victoria University of Wellington publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Tuakiri, and eduGAIN. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2026-08-30.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://idp.vuw.ac.nz.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
SAML 2.0 identity federation surfaces operated by the institution.
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are IDPSSODescriptor (5 properties), Endpoint (2 properties), EntityDescriptor (2 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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