<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style="">Running some tests this morning, I noticed that one of the federation's (UK Fed in this case) servers was slow returning the metadata during Shib startup and indeed, it timed out trying to fetch the data. Hitting the URL for the data showed that it was taking about 90 seconds or more to return the data.</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">So, Googling around looking for how to control the CURL timeout, I found the TransportOption. I added this to my config:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><MetadataProvider type="Chaining"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span><TransportOption provider="CURL" option="13">120</TransportOption><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">(first tag there is pre-existing). Indeed this resolved the issue and all other metadata loaded just fine as well. So, the question becomes, is this an appropriate adjustment to the config for this issue? If so, are there any other
ramifications that might affect my system based on the use of this stanza in the config? There is nothing special about my Shib installation. It's a generic, vanilla install.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">I am running SP 2.3.1 on IIS7 - all 64 bit.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Thanks!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>