Question on ValidUntil attribute in Metadata

[Cantor, Scott]

On 4/20/15, 1:56 PM, "Brewer, Edward L" <lee.brewer at Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:

>Scott and Tom,
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>That is what I thought.... just making sure that the metadata is not being used.  When I saw the line in the log
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>12:02:19.975 - WARN [org.opensaml.saml2.metadata.provider.AbstractReloadingMetadataProvider:374] - Entire metadata document from '/PathToFile/Filename.xml' was expired at time of loading, existing metadata retained
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>It sounded like it was using some older version of metadata.

The function at start up as the same as the one later on, so it's saying "I'm using whatever I already had", which in that specific degenerate case is nothing. I don't know if it can recover from that without a restart though.

The argument (chiefly made by me) in favor of not failFasting is that I'd rather the other metadata sources that might be working be allowed to load than fail the whole IdP load.

-- Scott