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The protocol is described in Identity Provider Discovery Service Protocol and Profile. On how to apply the Discovery Service URL in your product you should consult the documentation of the product itself, in most cases Shibboleth SP documentation or SimpleSAMLphp documentation.
Filtering IdPs
By default eduTEAMS Discovery Service lists all the eduGAIN IdPs for a eduGAIN SP using the service. SP may reduce the list by Filtering IdPs.
Embedded discovery.
Discovery may be used also in embedded fashion. For that to work authentication needs to be triggered from a page that includes javascript that provides the functionality. Here we provide examples for Shibboleth SP and SimpleSAMLphp.
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