Certificate in IDP metadata xml file

[Kobe Bryant]

Off topic:

    >With one unimportant edge case exception, the metadata is of no
interest to the
IdP.

Which edge case are you referring to?

thnx

/Kobe

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Rod Widdowson <rdw at steadingsoftware.com>wrote:

> Ajay,
> Briefly, No.
>
> Metadata is transportable (it is your statement about your IdP which other
> entities will save and consult), so specifying a file:
> type URL (even if it was allowed) would not work.  With one unimportant
> edge case exception, the metadata is of no interest to the
> IdP.
>
> In a usual deployment the IdP cert will be extremely slowly changing so
> the cost of cut and pasting the certificate into your
> metadata file will not be a burden.
>
> Rod
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net]
> On Behalf Of ajay bhadauria
> > Sent: 17 December 2011 04:10
> > To: users at shibboleth.net
> > Subject: Certificate in IDP metadata xml file
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to the shibboleth IDP. I wanted to know that can I give the
> location of idp
> > certificate(/shibboleth/cert/idp.cert) in idp-metadata.xml file as
> below  ?
> >
> > <ds:X509Certificate>
> >          file:///shibboleth/cert/idp.cert
> >  </ds:X509Certificate>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ajay
>
>
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