Shibboleth experimentation

[Peter Schober]

* Gilles Badouet <badouetg at uni.coventry.ac.uk> [2013-06-18 15:22]:
> but it is still impossible for the SP to load the IdP metadata.

What does the metadata provider in your shibboleth2.xml config look
like? If you're pulling metadata directly from the IdP can you reach
the IdP's URL from the console, e.g. using curl?

But before messing with that note that there's no requirement to ever
pull metadata directly from the IdP (the opposite is generally
recommended, if for completely different reasons) and that doesn't
make a lot of sense when both are on the same machine either.
So just point the SP to your IdP's metadata file on disk. On UNIXoid
systems the default path is
/opt/shibboleth-idp/metadata/idp-metadata.xml
Adjust to taste.
-peter