How do I specify entityID to the DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider?

[Jeremy Morton]

Ahhh, so it uses the AuthnRequest's Issuer element, as sent by the client,
as the entityID?

Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:

>
> On 5 Feb 2015, at 11:38, Jeremy Morton <jez9999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm reading the docs on DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider:
>
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider
>
> It keeps talking about how the "entityID value" gets used in various
> places, including as the metadata request URL for the well-known location
> strategy.  But... where do I actually specify the entityID value?  I don't
> see anywhere to put it.  This should definitely be clarified in these docs,
> preferably with an example.
>
>
> You don't specify the entity ID value for the DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider,
> it's implicitly the entity ID of the SP that the IdP is looking for
> metadata for. So it will change from one request to the next, dynamically.
>
> If you want to have it periodically pull metadata for a specific entity
> ID, you might be looking for an HTTPMetadataProvider (sorry, no V3 docs
> for that yet but you can use the V2 docs for that[1]).
>
>     -- Ian
>
>  [1]
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPMetadataProvider#IdPMetadataProvider-HTTPMetadataProvider
>
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