Metadata precedence on entityID appearing twice in two different feeds.

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/16/14, 5:27 PM, "Tompkins,Charles R" <crt at ufl.edu> wrote:

>In relying-party.xml, InCommon's metadata provider stanza appears first,
>before the entityID-in-question's file-backed provider stanza.  Does this
>matter?

Yes.

>Is it possible to override which metadata an IdP considers for a given
>entityID if it appears in two places or is this just broken?

It's considered broken, but the SP supports indicating precedence (first
or last) while the IdP leaves it unspecified but in practice uses first.
So you should generally load your metadata first, because if nothing else,
you control it and can change it on the fly.

-- Scott