First Response Dispatched by mod_shib Before Metadata Reloading Completes?

[Peter Schober]

* Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu> [2012-09-04 19:39]:
> I can make dynamic reloading "work" by having the metadata upload  
> process touch /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml and then issue a curl  
> command to a session initiator, triggering the refresh ahead of the  
> first user attempt.  Any opinion on whether this is good, bad, or  
> ugly, relative to having the metadata upload process forcibly reboot  
> shibd?

In other cases I used 'shibd -t' together with touching the config,
not sure this would help here (and you already have it "mostly
working" with curl anyway),
-peter