Shibboleth IdP fails to download metadata then never tries again

[Cantor, Scott]

> 3. However, there is *never* again a log entry indicating that Shibboleth IdP attempted to download the metadata at that URL.
> It is as  if the IdP service stops trying.

Your evidence for that is what? The access log on the web server hosting the metadata?

> 4. This is a big problem as now our metadata is getting more and more stale.

Is the metadata at the source actually newer?

>  (After this point, there is NEVER again a mention of  https://idp.stanford.edu/Stanford-idps.xml&#39 in any of the logs.)

That doesn't really mean anything, there are issues with the logging around expired or unchanged metadata.

-- Scott