Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

I don't *think* this would on the IdP.  I think the IdP waits to write 
out the backup file until after it has successfully parsed and validated 
the incoming file.

On 2/25/10 11:28 AM, André Cruz wrote:
> 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

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