SP V3 metadata types

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/13/18, 9:33 AM, "dev on behalf of Tom Scavo" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right, that agrees with what Scott and Rod told me earlier, but that
> is suboptimal since the metadata resolver redundantly processes the
> metadata in the case of 304. That processing includes signature
> verification and who knows whet other metadata filters have been
> configured on the DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider. I'm not intimately
> familiar with the implementation but there seems to be a significant
> optimization lurking here, essentially the same optimization
> implemented in FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider.

Yes, exactly, that's one of the enhancements I asked for, the other being caching failure to avoid repeated failed lookups.

The same thing happens with LocalDynamic. Even if the local file is unchanged, it will reload it every time it tries, and go through the full processing step when it does.

-- Scott