testing errors

[Rod Widdowson]

> Rod, I don't see what LocalDynamicMetadataProvider has to do with it.
> Could you briefly outline the administrator workflow you have in mind?

My suggestion was based on the potentially flawed observation that most outages are due to broken pushed metadata.  This takes out
the entire site until such time as it is found and fixed.

A secondary observation is that the user has to remember the name of their metadata file which is a needless burden and I see
occasional request to "delete my old metadata whose name I have forgotten"

So knowing that the way that the LocalDynamicMetadataProvider works is to, _in the context of the request_

1) Hash the provided entity ID
2) Look for a file of that name in a specified directory
3) Load it parse it and so forth.

We can see that both problems are avoided.  If the metadata is badly formed it takes out the request, not the TestShib SAML Entity.
The user doesn't specify a file name, it is generated for them.

Just FWIW

R