trivial shibd questions

[Cantor, Scott]

> 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.

If you mean change the message, not easily, though I think it's possible to do some hard-wired testing against the error message itself if it came to that, in the error templates. The messages have never been pulled out of the code, it's too much work and there's no standard way to do it in C++ that's cross-platform.

Also, I disagree to some degree, in that a) it doesn't mean the web server is down, and b) it at least provides an explicit cause that an administrator can respond to. But that's a personal view.

It's also not a common condition. If this happens with any frequency, you have a problem in your environment to fix.

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

Well, if I was, it would have been fixed...

> I note that the misspelling has persisted since shibd v1

That sort of makes me sad to fix it.

-- Scott