Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

Christopher A Bongaarts wrote on 2009-02-25:
> In the immortal words of Tom Scavo:
>> AFAIK Shibboleth has always required metadata to be configured on a
>> per-file basis.  It would be more convenient (and less error prone)
>> for deployers if there were a configurable metadata directory  Then
>> all you have to do is drop a metadata file into the directory and go.

That doesn't really make much sense to me in light of the fact that metadata
is almost always pulled from a remote location. We don't see any non-toy use
cases in which people would be explicitly pointing at files anymore, other
than intra-campus cases where you're managing SP metadata on the IdP host,
and that's basically one file.

> I'm guessing it's "nobody's asked for it yet"....
> 
> I think it would be a useful feature.   Would you like to write it up
> in JIRA or should I? ;)

It's already in Jira I believe. I don't have any plans to do so for the
reason above. Local files are an exception case, not the norm.

-- Scott