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The message is unambiguous: metadata download failed, couldn't connect. The bits that you identified could certainly cause that failure if it's not the right configuration for your particular network configuration.
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<div>I'd try removing the TransportOption and seeing what happens -- anything's better than getting an orange gryphon of death(we love deployers who update their error pages ;D ). If it still fails to connect, "it's a network issue", and you'll need to know
the right magic words to whisper to your network to get through the gate.
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<div>On Jun 5, 2013, at 14:18 , John Westwood wrote:</div>
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I be right in thinking the problem is something to do with TransportOption? I don't know why we are using a HTTP proxy, the address is for accessing the University's Intranet from an external location. Maybe I could try commenting out this line and restarted
Shibboleth / Apache?</span></blockquote>
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