Metadata precedence on entityID appearing twice in two different feeds.

Kevin Foote kpfoote at uoregon.edu
Thu Oct 16 17:55:13 EDT 2014


On Oct 16, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>> 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.

HA..   I like this work around. :-)
Similar to how apache handles virtualhost definitions. 

Still learning the ‘tricks’ of the masters. Thanks Scott for enlightening. 

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thanks
 kevin.foote



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