Idp not working with sp.testshib.org

[Kevin Foote]

On May 28, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 5/28/14, 2:19 PM, "Alvarez, Dyana I" <d.alvarez2 at miami.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> This is what I get when I go to sp.testshib.org and put
>> https://my.special.alvarez/idp/shibboleth to test:
>> 
>> =============================================================
>> Unable to connect
> 
> Well, yes, because it's redirecting you to a nonsensical hostname, which
> you can see right in the browser.
> https://my.special.alvarez/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO is not a usable
> URL unless you have a local /etc/hosts definition with that bogus hostname
> defined to point somewhere, localhost or otherwise.

Not your problem but something to note: metadata rotates out after a month.
Covered here  <https://www.testshib.org/policy.html>

(( I’m still working on the re-config of md aggregates  ))

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thanks
 kevin.foote