Multiple <EntitiesDescriptor> in single metadata file

Christopher Bland chris at fdu.edu
Wed Sep 26 17:40:55 EDT 2012


Hi Tom,

I had not considered entity attributes.  I fixed the problem earlier 
using Scott's feedback.  I am however curious about entity attributes.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-Chris

On 9/26/12 4:24 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Christopher Bland <chris at fdu.edu> wrote:
>> We have been deploying SPs on campus using a federation approach.  As such
>> we use AttributeRequesterInEntityGroup in our attribute-filter.xml file for
>> attributes we send to all servers.  We are currently deploying a SP which is
>> part of our federation but do not want to send it our standard attributes.
>> I have tried two approaches to the problem but both seem to give me errors.
>>
>> First approach change attribute-filter.xml...
>>
>> Second approach change our metadata file to have two <EntitiesDescriptor>.
> Have you considered the use of entity attributes for this purpose? The
> advantage of entity attributes is that each EntityDescriptor is
> self-contained (since entity attributes are extension elements in
> EntityDescriptor elements) so you can mix-and-match EntityDescriptor
> elements, move them around to different metadata aggregates, and so
> forth.
>
> Tom
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