Shibboleth Developers

[Thomas Lenggenhager <>]

Scott Cantor wrote:
>>I see a value of self-publishing metadata, even if it has to be signed
>>by the federations in whom a SP participates.
>>
>>With self-publishing instead of central management there would not be
>>the need to have a separate cron job to regularly update the signed
>>federation metadata file at each IdP (or vice versa for the SPs) in
>>order to guarantee proper interworking.
> 
> I see no connection between these ideas. Self-publishing doesn't get the
> metadata to the IdP or the SP, so a cron job is still required. Cron jobs
> are replaced by dynamic lookup, but dynamic lookup is separate from who
> publishes the file, it just determines where the file might be.

Oh I see. For me self-publishing was the same as dynamic lookup.
Sorry for that misunderstanding.

Thomas