Prepare SAML authentication Added in 7.5.0
Creates a SAML authentication request (<AuthnRequest>
) as a URL string, based on the configuration of the respective SAML realm in Elasticsearch.
Body Required
-
acs string
The Assertion Consumer Service URL that matches the one of the SAML realms in Elasticsearch. The realm is used to generate the authentication request. You must specify either this parameter or the realm parameter.
-
realm string
The name of the SAML realm in Elasticsearch for which the configuration is used to generate the authentication request. You must specify either this parameter or the acs parameter.
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relay_state string
A string that will be included in the redirect URL that this API returns as the RelayState query parameter. If the Authentication Request is signed, this value is used as part of the signature computation.
POST /_security/saml/prepare
curl \
-X POST http://api.example.com/_security/saml/prepare \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"acs":"string","realm":"string","relay_state":"string"}'
Request examples
{
"acs": "string",
"realm": "string",
"relay_state": "string"
}
Response examples (200)
{
"id": "string",
"realm": "string",
"redirect": "string"
}