SAML-tracer Chrome Extension Analysis
Developer & Designer ToolsChrome extension ID: mpdajninpobndbfcldcmbpnnbhibjmch
A developer-focused browser extension designed to view and trace SAML and WS-Federation messages. It handles complex multi-layered encoding, such as Base64, deflate/gzip, and URL encoding, to facilitate authentication debugging.
Overview
Installs
400K+
Rating
★ 4.5
35 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Developer & Designer Tools
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
SAML-tracer positions itself as a specialized debugging tool for inspecting SAML and WS-Federation messages. It focuses on capturing and decoding authentication messages sent through the browser during SSO and SLO processes.
Inferred product pattern
A niche developer utility for protocol inspection and authentication debugging within the browser.
Review-backed pain points
Users reported difficulty importing exported files, bugs resulting in 'null' content in exported files, and high browser memory usage (up to 2 GB).
Observed feature gaps
Users requested a 'raw decoded XML' view to avoid whitespace changes from pretty-printing and more versatile export formats compatible with tools like Fiddler.
- Software Developers
- Security Engineers
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialists
- Debugging SAML authentication flows
- Inspecting SSO/SLO messages
- Decoding complexly encoded SAML assertions
- Efficient handling of multi-layered encoding (Base64, deflate, URL encoding)
- High utility for debugging SAML/SSO issues
- Incompatibility with other debugging tools due to export formats
- Intermittent bugs causing null exports
- High memory consumption
- UI/visibility issues
- Performance complaints detected
- No pricing information or friction observed in the provided data.
Support
No support-related complaints were identified in the reviews.
Reliability
Users reported reliability issues including high memory usage, disappearing UI buttons, and bugs that produce empty exported files.
Privacy
No privacy or security complaints were observed.
- No clear monetization signal
- No clear access signal
- No clear pricing signal
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 5
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 1.9.3
- Size: 125KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: github.com
Privacy policy: https://simplesamlphp.org/support/samltracer_privacy.html
