https://www.testshib.org and "The file you are attempting to upload is not valid metadata. Please correct any errors and try again."

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Brian Tingle wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to test my shibboleth installation.  Following the directions here:
>
> https://www.testshib.org/configure.html I generated a shibboleth2.xml and installed it; and following the directions here:
>
> https://www.testshib.org/metadata.html I generated the SAML metadata file and uploaded it to testshib.org
>
> When I upload; I get to this page: https://www.testshib.org/procupload.php
> and it has a message:
>
> "The file you are attempting to upload is not valid metadata. Please correct any errors and try again."
>
> But I don't see any report of any errors to correct.  Is there a command line tool to check the metadata file?
>
> Here is the metadata file I uploaded to testshib.org : https://gist.github.com/tingletech/5709345

that does not look like valid MD ..

> Does anyone have any hints or ideas how to resolve this issue or what step I'm missing from the instructions?

You should be able to access your SPs metadata at

  /Shibboleth.sso/Metadata

that will give you and example of metadata for your service .. that is
what you need to download then upload to testshib




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thanks
  kevin.foote