SP Startup takes 20+ minutes

[Cantor, Scott]

> It's the same in the IdP and Java OpenSAML.  There is not really any way I see
> off-hand to communicate to the signature filter not to run, except for a
> (nasty) ThreadLocal.
> 
> Maybe in general we need some sort of conditions that can be attached to
> the metadata filters.

I'm surprised I didn't already, I put them just about everywhere else...the only problem is it doesn't fit the general Predicate<ProfileRequestContext> signature I used for everything.

> But the problem is still how to communicate any
> meaningful state on which the filter can operate.  Short of ThreadLocal, there
> would have to be some MetadataFilter API changes I think.

Probably the same for the SP, but there's probably a 2.6 in the future here anyway.

-- Scott