Shibboleth Developers

[Ian Young <>]

Scott Cantor wrote:

> Of course that only works when validating. If we turn that off, the code has
> no idea where anything is, and I suspect we'll be chasing bugs for years.

Agreed.  Now, here's something interesting: I made some semi-deliberate 
mistakes in the IdP configuration file today, such that a validating 
parser should have failed to validate the configuration file, and it let 
it pass.

If I eyeball my way through the initialisation code, it certainly looks 
like validation is supposed to be happening on this file.  But it isn't, 
for me.

Can someone else with a 1.3 IdP try adding something well formed but 
gratuitously awful to their configuration, and see if the parser still 
buys it?  I found, for example, that I could just add an element like 
this just before the closing </IdPConfig>:

        <Wibble>argh!</Wibble>

That just ain't right,

        -- Ian