On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Joel Goguen <joel.goguen at unb.ca> wrote: > > Is there some change to this or to the IdP configuration I can make to avoid issues on startup if the metadataURL can't be reached but the backingFile exists? Are you using at least IdP 2.2? AFAIK the MetadataProvider was significantly improved in that version. Tom