A problem with metadata:FilesystemMetadataProvider

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/12/14, 9:59 AM, "Marco Malavolti" <marco.malavolti at garr.it> wrote:
>
>The "http://www.example.it/metadata/metadata-sha256.xml" has a new
>validUntil value, but the backingFile is not updated.
>
>I have tried this steps:
>1) Removed the metadata-sha256.xml from its location.
>2) Restarted Tomcat7
>3) Removed again the new metadata-sha256.xml from its location.
>4) I have waited the new refresh cycle to see what happen and I see the
>"Log" that I have attached here.

That means your server is broken, it's misreporting caching information.

>I begin to think that the problem can be on the retrieving URL, but I
>don't understand why, with a Tomcat restart, the metadata is updated
>correctly.

The IdP, AFAIK, does not preserve HTTP cache state across restarts. The SP
does, it writes the data to an additional backing file.

-- Scott