Publishing IdP's metadata?

[Jeremy Morton]

Yeah but for testing purposes I just need a quick way for my SP to get at
that data via HTTP(S).  Thanks.  However, there is still a problem with
/idp/shibboleth - the <?xml... has two newlines in front of it, which is
invalid XML.  Can this be fixed?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 2/5/15, 2:57 PM, "Jeremy Morton" <jez9999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> >How do I publish my Shibboleth IdP's metadata?  I see the
> >metadata/idp-metadata.xml file, but what URL do I need to use to access
> >it?
>
> The Shibboleth "model" is that you register it with a trusted third party
> that brokers it, so you don't publish it at all.
>
> If you want a different model, the security of that model is up to you to
> own, and the answer to "how" is that you prepare it and make it available
> in whatever way you deem appropriate.
>
> The metadata in that file is available at /idp/shibboleth. Because it's
> not generated dynamically but is essentially whatever you put in that
> file, and thus controllable, it's fine to use that URL for the most part.
> But that's meaningless by itself. You're just self-asserting the
> information.
>
> -- Scott
>
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