UK Federation contact issues

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/12/15, 12:02 PM, "users on behalf of Dave Perry" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of Dave.Perry at hull-college.ac.uk> wrote:

>We have tried the test that Matthew sent me last week (time curl –sv
>http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml ) and that is bombing out after about 6 minutes.
> 
>The .xml file from the last successful attempt is on the server, but the IdP boot process takes a very long time (minutes) to decide it’s given up on downloading the new one before it does anything with it. Then it still fails to work with any service providers anyway.

I guess it would fail if it's badly out of date?

You can always fast-fail the download by adjusting the URL to a bogus name. But that assumes the backup file is valid/usable.

-- Scott