<div dir="ltr">Well, I didn't totally discount the idea that there could be one thing that did it all... but I guess in this case, I was trying to find anything that could possibly be the problem. Their end is such a black box that I have started grasping at straws.<div>
<br></div><div>So assuming their metadata is ok, then I think the problem must lie in their configuration - which is what I told them at one point in the dozens - scores - of emails we've exchanged. I asked them to compare it with one that IS working, since they supposedly have done this before.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for verifying this (and for verifying I should have gotten metadata.) Since one doesn't usually see those intermediary URL steps in the process, I couldn't say for sure if it was just my inexperience that made that endpoint look odd. Or that made me think you really NEED metadata for an SP.</div>
<div><br></div><div>all the best and thanks again,</div><div>Karla B<br></div><div><br></div><div>ps wish me luck</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Cantor, Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu" target="_blank">cantor.2@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 8/20/13 12:43 PM, "Karla Borecky" <<a href="mailto:kborecky@smith.edu">kborecky@smith.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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>When it didn't work at first, I assumed it was because they didn't have<br>
>any assertion consumers in their metadata. Then they put some in, but<br>
>they are pointing every one to the same thing:<br>
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</div>That's not invalid, but has nothing to do with anything you experienced so<br>
far. Whether it's "correct" isn't determinable, short of waiting for an<br>
indication of it working or not once other issues are fixed.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>Maybe this is some sort of super bit of code that is the all-weather tire<br>
>of assertion consumers, but...<br>
<br>
</div>That's not uncommon. It comes down to code design.<br>
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-- Scott<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="margin-left:40px">Karla Borecky<br>Systems Administrator<br>ITS<br>Smith College<br>Northampton, MA 01063<br></div>
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