Metadata precedence on entityID appearing twice in two different feeds.

[Tom Poage]

On Oct 16, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On 10/16/14, 5:27 PM, "Tompkins,Charles R" <crt at ufl.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.

We've done that, but more often have done the opposite to get metadata installed and working when there's some sort of administrative delay (on the SP end) registering with the federation. When the SP metadata finally does show up from the federation, it (eventually) overrides the local definition, which we can then remove at our leisure. The configuration ends being a kind of metadata 'sandwich':

  override metadata
  federation metadata
  fallback metadata

Tom.