Possible problem with validUntil in opensaml

Leif Johansson leifj at sunet.se
Mon Jun 18 15:30:23 BST 2012


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On 06/18/2012 04:28 PM, Ian Young wrote:
> 
> On 18 Jun 2012, at 15:19, Leif Johansson wrote:
> 
>> Surprising, but good answer.
> 
> In passing, if you want to be a conservative producer of metadata,
> you'll want to follow the recommendation in the spec that
> validUntil (and cacheDuration) only ever appear on the root
> element.

Quite but I hadn't exptected it to be viral like that. Loosing
a single entity due to a broken validUntil is "fine". Loosing the
entire aggregate is another matter altogether...

	Cheers leif
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