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RE: metadata fetch behaviour


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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
  • To: <>
  • Subject: RE: metadata fetch behaviour
  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:07:01 -0500
  • Organization: The Ohio State University

> The IdP performs an HTTP HEAD request and only if the last update time
> is newer does it perform a GET. It tries to be a good netizen. :)

The SP does not, because I'm not doing the fetch, libcurl inside of Xerces
is. If I used libcurl directly, I'd have to buffer the data myself before
giving it to the parser (as well as hardcode a dependency on libcurl that I
don't have right now).

-- Scott





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