IDP health check

[Rainer Hoerbe]

> Am 27.02.2017 um 16:16 schrieb Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu>:
> 
>> Screen scraping is not the problem, as the SAML test harness does this quite
>> well. I wanted to avoid to bundle the whole test harness into the shib-idp
>> container doubling the Dockerfile. But if this is the way to go, no problem.
> 
> I don't know what it looks like, but you wouldn't need an SP necessarily if that's in the mix, just some mocked up metadata for an example.org URL.

No, saml2test2 is pysaml2-based  and can run the authnrequest/login test using various interfaces. Currently one needs to start a service regardless whether using gui, api or script interface. So there is a small overhead.

- Rainer