Dynamic Configuration of IdP

M mlsaghir at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 30 23:16:43 EDT 2013


We would much prefer to get the metadata from a third party.  Are you referring to something like InCommon?  Some of our clients use InCommon, but many do not.  So even if we used a third party federation, wouldn't we need a way to handle the clients who don't use a federation?  



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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 11:00 PM EDT Cantor, Scott wrote:

>On 9/30/13 10:52 PM, "M" <mlsaghir at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> However, I am unsure what you mean by loading the IdPs meta data.  I
>>read up on Folder metadata provider and a metadata aggregate so I have
>>some understanding of how they work.  So would one way to save the meta
>>data be to have a file for each IdP in the Folder, which is then loaded?
>>The documentation says that new files will not be detected though, so how
>>should new IdPs be handled?
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>Ideally by leveraging third party federations to manage the metadata for
>you. If you really insist on being one yourself, you should generate all
>of the metadata in one file and update that file to make changes.
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>-- Scott
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