On: SAML: A Technical Primer

[bitexploder]

But it’s not true in practice. Pure simple XML vs JSON sure. XML you deal with in SAML has tons of extra things like namespaces, canonicalization issues, etc. it is way more complex and has led to many security issues over the years.

[Jerrrrrrry → bitexploder]

I had originally quoted

  "in theory, it's easy in practice. in practice, its easy in theory"

But I thought scientist vs. programmer would be literally analogous and rivet more finches.