Relying party parsing. Metadata providers

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Thu Mar 20 10:41:28 EDT 2014


I'd like to air a couple of issues which arose today.

- Firstly I noticed that the default for requireValidMetadata in the
OpenSAML class was false, but the documentation was that it be true.
Looking at V2 AFAICS it defaults to false there too.  I unthinkingly changed
the default and then realized that I really wanted to air this question
first.  I also realized that a test was failing as a result.  So I have
reverted the change for now.  Any thoughts?

- I am getting increasingly unhappy at adding referenced to OpenSAML and
idp-saml-impl to the idp-profile-spring package.  Whereas Security and
Relyingparty configuration can be thought of as being SAML-neutral,
metataproviders are pretty SAML specific (although I suppose other protocols
could have metadata...).  Are we comfortable with these dependencies or do
we want to split the parsing across packages?

Thanks

Rod



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