OK, I've taken your comments on board and updated the document
accordingly. The relying-party.xml section now has a couple of
subsections for the metadata and credentials config, and there's a link
to Internet2 for more info about the <MetadataProvider>.
Sara
Andy Swiffin wrote:
>>>> On 03/12/2009 at 11:47, in message <[log in to unmask]>, Sara Hopkins
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The UK federation documentation for configuration of the Shibboleth 2
>> IdP does describe how to configure the MetadataProvider but perhaps it
>> wasn't clear what it's for. I've updated it to (I hope) make it a bit
>> clearer.
>>
>> http://www.ukfederation.org.uk/content/Documents/Setup2IdP
>>
>
> Thanks
> Yes, I see the new bit: (Shibboleth 2 has built-in support for metadata download, so a separate tool is no longer needed). I had the document open on my desk! (Amongst many others). Perhaps it should be modified further to say: (Shibboleth 2 has built-in support for regular periodic metadata download, so a separate tool (such as metadatatool) is no longer needed). The reason I suggest this is that I'd interpreted the Filebackedmetaadataprovider as only doing a download once or if there was no file there, due to having missed the existence of the optional cacheDuration setting. Maybe even add a bit in about cacheDuration?
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> Ta
> Andy
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