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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/16 9:24 AM, Tom Scavo wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Looking at the doc for IdP V3 DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/x/o4AgAQ">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/x/o4AgAQ</a>
Can the base URL for the MDQ protocol start with <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="file://">"file://"</a>, </pre>
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No. As its name suggests, that one is all about HTTP. Not even
sure how you would expect plugging a <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file://">file://</a> one into the MDQ option
would work, since AFAIK MDQ is defined entirely in terms of the HTTP
protocol.<br>
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<pre wrap="">that is,
does the metadata provider support file-based metadata retrieval?
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The HTTP one doesn't, and won't. But there is a concrete plan for a
"local dynamic" one to resolve from a local filesystem. It's
probable that it will be in 3.3. You'll configure it with a base
directory, and then the metadata is resolved as the file content of
that directory. Individual entity descriptor files will be named
using a function-based transform of the entityID, by default the
SHA-1 hash.<br>
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