diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/CoreShibUiConfiguration.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/CoreShibUiConfiguration.java
index c9b6493fa..e17c33b0e 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/CoreShibUiConfiguration.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/CoreShibUiConfiguration.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.configuration;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module;
 import edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.opensaml.OpenSamlObjects;
 import edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.repository.EntityDescriptorRepository;
 import edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.repository.MetadataResolverRepository;
@@ -168,4 +169,9 @@ public DirectoryService directoryService() {
     public LuceneUtility luceneUtility(DirectoryService directoryService) {
         return new LuceneUtility(directoryService);
     }
+
+    @Bean
+    public Module stringTrimModule() {
+        return new StringTrimModule();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/StringTrimModule.java b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/StringTrimModule.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c04ab071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/configuration/StringTrimModule.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package edu.internet2.tier.shibboleth.admin.ui.configuration;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdScalarDeserializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * @author Bill Smith (wsmith@unicon.net)
+ *
+ * Adapted from Maciej Marczuk's answer on Stack Overflow here:
+ * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6852213/can-jackson-be-configured-to-trim-leading-trailing-whitespace-from-all-string-pr/33765854#33765854
+ */
+public class StringTrimModule extends SimpleModule {
+
+    public StringTrimModule() {
+        addDeserializer(String.class, new StdScalarDeserializer<String>(String.class) {
+            @Override
+            public String deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser, DeserializationContext ctx) throws IOException {
+                return jsonParser.getValueAsString().trim();
+            }
+        });
+    }
+}
diff --git a/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/controller/MetadataResolversControllerIntegrationTests.groovy b/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/controller/MetadataResolversControllerIntegrationTests.groovy
index 69efa8133..f12e6b8ef 100644
--- a/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/controller/MetadataResolversControllerIntegrationTests.groovy
+++ b/backend/src/test/groovy/edu/internet2/tier/shibboleth/admin/ui/controller/MetadataResolversControllerIntegrationTests.groovy
@@ -150,13 +150,27 @@ class MetadataResolversControllerIntegrationTests extends Specification {
         result.statusCodeValue == 404
     }
 
+    @DirtiesContext
+    def "SHIBUI-839 - POST resolver with spaces in the provider name results in trimmed name"() {
+        given:
+        def resolver = generator.buildRandomMetadataResolverOfType('DynamicHttp')
+        resolver.name = '   This name has spaces    '
+
+        when:
+        def result = this.restTemplate.postForEntity(BASE_URI, createRequestHttpEntityFor { mapper.writeValueAsString(resolver) }, String)
+
+        then:
+        def metadataResolverMap = new JsonSlurper().parseText(result.body)
+        metadataResolverMap.name == resolver.name.trim()
+    }
+
     @Unroll
     @DirtiesContext
     def "POST new concrete MetadataResolver of type #resolverType -> /api/MetadataResolvers"(String resolverType) {
         given: 'New MetadataResolver JSON representation'
         def resolver = generator.buildRandomMetadataResolverOfType(resolverType)
         String sourceDirectory
-        if (resolverType.equals('Localdynamic')) {
+        if (resolverType.equals('LocalDynamic')) {
             sourceDirectory = ((LocalDynamicMetadataResolver) resolver).sourceDirectory
         }