no AttributeAuthority role found in metadata

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Mike Flynn <shibbolethlynda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Setting up a new connection, everything works fine but I see this in the
> logs:
>
> WARN Shibboleth.AttributeResolver.Query [15]: no SAML 2 AttributeAuthority
> role found in metadata
>
> Do I need to worry about that?

This is becoming a "recommended practice" in the InCommon Federation.
If an IdP *always* pushes attributes, then a SAML2 AttributeService
endpoint is not necessary. Indeed, such an endpoint is known to cause
spurious errors at the SP. (I'm not referring to the warning above.)

Tom