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RE: [Shib-Dev] Metadata verification before overwriting local copy


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  • From: "Scott Cantor" <>
  • To: <>
  • Subject: RE: [Shib-Dev] Metadata verification before overwriting local copy
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:16:14 -0500
  • Organization: The Ohio State University
André Cruz wrote on 2010-02-26:
> According to
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPMetadataProvider
> schema validation is only an option for the Dynamic MetadataProvider. I
> use the XML MetadataProvider.

"Inherits attributes supported by reloadable resources."

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPReloadableXMLFile

> On another note, both in the IDP and SP schema validation is off by
default.
> At first glance schema validation seems like the logical thing to do, it
is
> that expensive or requires remote network calls?

It will fail in the presence of certain kinds of extensions, and the code
performs a variety of structural checking during unmarshalling and brute
force validation.

-- Scott



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