trivial shibd questions

[Peter Schober]

* Allan West <allan at ufl.edu> [2016-07-25 15:12]:
> 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.

Depends on what you want to replace. Have a look at the HTML templates
in the SP distribution.

> 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.

That comes straight out of shibsp/remoting/impl/SocketListener.cpp and
supports claims that noone ever reads error messages, or that this
error message is not seen as often, which I find somewhat less likely.
-peter