Metadata Changeover Questions

McKean, Brandon Scott - mckeanbs mckeanbs at jmu.edu
Wed Jul 22 11:08:08 EDT 2015


> Then I misunderstood you, I assumed what you were proposing was to
> add that.
> 
> Then you already understand...you have the metadata sitting there and
> yet you still have SAML 1 happening. So if you're suggesting that
> removing the SAML 1 metadata will fix anything, no. That's going to
> break any of those SPs that are actually relying on the metadata.
> Most of them are probably not, but I really couldn't say.
Ok, good to know. I was afraid I didn't have SAML2 support at all.
Whew.
Ah, so there isn't really a way to force use of SAML2 instead, it's all
up to the SP in that sense?
> Testshib is not an InCommon-driven service.
Sorry for the confusion, I had meant I used testshib with altered
metadata before to try and force SAML1 and SAML2 as applicable (And to
test the metadata changes). My goal in that was to see how I might do
similar changes with the InCommon metadata.
Brandon
On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 14:52 +0000, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> On 7/22/15, 10:48 AM, "users on behalf of McKean, Brandon Scott -
> mckeanbs" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of mckeanbs at jmu.edu
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hmm, perhaps I don't fully understand the implications of the
> > metadata myself. What I previously emailed was the current
> > metadata, with the SAML2 elements there.
> 
> Then I misunderstood you, I assumed what you were proposing was to
> add that.
> 
> Then you already understand...you have the metadata sitting there and
> yet you still have SAML 1 happening. So if you're suggesting that
> removing the SAML 1 metadata will fix anything, no. That's going to
> break any of those SPs that are actually relying on the metadata.
> Most of them are probably not, but I really couldn't say.
> 
> > Maybe there's more to it that I'm not seeing? I thought having all
> > the SAML2 lines that I posted before indicated SAML2 support was
> > there. for our side. (And when I've used Testshib in testing it, it
> > appears to be using SAML2, I could only make it use SAML1 when
> > modifying the metadata to remove SAML2 bits.)
> 
> Testshib is not an InCommon-driven service.
> 
> -- Scott
> 
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