Net::SA...ng::POST(3)

📦 version 0.85, in alpine 3.24

🌸 NAME 🌸

Net::SAML2::Binding::POST — the HTTP POST binding for SAML. Yup, that's the name line, bestie. This manual page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and the header shows it as Net::SA...ng::POST(3) because that's the truncated little title we got 💅.

💖 VERSION 💖

version 0.85 ✨ — short, sweet, and iconic.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the whole vibe in code, no cap:

         my $post = Net::SAML2::Binding::POST->new(
           cacert => '/path/to/ca-cert.pem'
         );
         my $xml = $post->handle_response(
           $saml_response
         );

🎀 METHODS 🎀

🧚 new( ) 🧚

Constructor! Returns an instance of the POST binding 🫶.

Arguments — and yes, we're keeping every single detail:

  • cacert — path to the CA certificate for verification. 🕵️‍♀️
  • cert — path to a certificate that is added to the signed XML. It needs to be the certificate that includes the public key related to the key. 🔑
  • cert_text — text form of the certificate in FORMAT_ASN1 or FORMAT_PEM that is used to verify the signed XML. 🔍
  • key — path to a key used to sign the XML. ✍️

And then the source lists cert, cert_text, and key again — not me being extra, it's literally in there — so here they are again, fr fr:

  • cert — path to a certificate that is added to the signed XML. It needs to be the certificate that includes the public key related to the key. 🔑
  • cert_text — text form of the certificate in FORMAT_ASN1 or FORMAT_PEM that is used to verify the signed XML. 🔍
  • key — path to a key used to sign the XML. ✍️

🔍 handle_response( $response ) 🔍

The source gives this little line:

           my $xml = $self->handle_response($response);

Decodes and verifies the Base64-encoded SAMLResponse CGI parameter. Returns the decoded response as XML. It's giving decode, verify, hand you the XML — slay 💖.

✍️ sign_xml( $request ) ✍️

Sign and encode the SAMLRequest. That's the whole method, bestie — periodt 👑.

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Timothy Legge <timlegge@gmail.com> — author, iconic.

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Venda Ltd, see the CONTRIBUTORS file for others. 🫶

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 🌈

okay bye bestie 💅 — footer check: perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-11, for the Net::SA...ng::POST(3) manual page. mwah 🍓

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