Shibboleth Developers

[André Cruz <>]

Hello.

I recently ran into a problem with the federation metadata and I think it 
could be better handled by the Shibboleth software. I tested this on an SP 
2.2.1 but it's possible it applies to the IDP as well.

What happened was that the server that hosts my metadata had a problem, and 
started serving a default page, in xhtml. The SP fetched this, as it was 
valid xml trashed the local file, and failed to load the new file keeping the 
valid metadata in memory. If a restart happens before the SP can fetch a 
valid metadata again, it will fail.

I know these were very specific circumstances but can't the SP and IDP make 
sure the metadata fetched is valid before overwriting the local file? Should 
I file it in JIRA?

Best regards,
André Cruz