2.2 Message Syntax

Implementations conforming to this protocol MUST support the following messages from [WSFederation1.2].

Message

[WSFederation1.2]

wsignin1.0

Sections 13.2.1 and 13.2.2

wsignout1.0

Section 13.2.4

wsignoutcleanup1.0

Section 13.2.4

Implementations conforming to this protocol SHOULD NOT emit the following messages from [WSFederation1.2]. Conforming implementations that receive one of these messages SHOULD<6> return an HTTP 403 error message if they receive such messages.

Message

[WSFederation1.2]

xml-attribute-request

Section 13.2.5

xml-pseudonym-request

Section 13.2.6

The following sections define the message syntax for the protocol, starting with common syntax for requests and responses. All parameters for protocol request and response messages MUST use HTTP encoding rules, as specified in [RFC2616].<7> For processing semantics on messages with parameters not specified in this document, see section 3.1.5.2.