Shibboleth FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider

[Tom Scavo]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Rod Widdowson
<rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>> I assume you mean "stops dead" in the sense that the refresh process
>> terminates. In any case, I assume the SP keeps running and tries
>> another refresh at a later time.
>
> Yup.  But if you ask me what happens when the metadata becomes invalid
> because a filter would have failed I don't know.  I rather suspect that it
> will 'just keep on trucking' and that the correct solution would be drop
> that metadata entirely.

Well, my original questions involved the backing file so let's leave
the above for another day. I already learned something new today :-)

I added some material on the backing file to the wiki:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/x/kQInAQ

Please review.

Thanks,

Tom