trivial shibd questions

Allan West allan at ufl.edu
Mon Jul 25 09:12:14 EDT 2016


Greetings,
I'm looking for two pieces of information, and my searches are finding 
completely other data.

First, is there a file where one can change the text of the shibd 
ListenerException error, to make it say something like:
     This particular web server has a problem...

instead of saying something about shib that users don't understand, 
which in turn makes many people say, "Shibboleth is down!" That 
statement is beginning to sound like "The internet is broken!" in terms 
of frequency, nebulousness, and incorrectness.



Second, are the developers aware that the current default error text 
misspells "administrator":

     shibsp::ListenerException at ( ${SITE} )
     Cannot connect to shibd process, a site adminstrator should be 
notified.

I note that the misspelling has persisted since shibd v1, since 
searching for:
     adminstrator (sic)

finds copy-paste error text in the mail archives with the same spelling.
Thanks,
Allan West



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