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[InCommon NOTICE] bad characters in metadata


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  • From: Thomas Scavo <>
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  • Cc: InCommon Administration <>
  • Subject: [InCommon NOTICE] bad characters in metadata
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:11:21 +0000
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As announced on Monday (attached below for reference), metadata was signed
twice on Tuesday, around 9:00 am ET and again at approximately 3:00 pm ET.
Unrelated to the issue reported on Monday (which is still unresolved), the
9:00 am signing event on Tuesday picked up some bad characters in eduGAIN
metadata. These characters exposed a bug in the Shibboleth SP software that
causes metadata refresh processes to fail.

By the time we signed metadata at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, the bad characters had
been removed upstream. Here is a portion of the diff before and after the
3:00 pm signing:

- <mdui:Description xml:lang="en">Off Campus Partners simplifies the
off-campus housing&#13;
- search process for universities, property managers, and students. Our&#13;
- software platform powers the off-campus housing listing service at
the&#13;
- nation's leading universities.</mdui:Description>
+ <mdui:Description xml:lang="en">Off Campus Partners simplifies the
off-campus housing search process for universities, property managers, and
students. Our software platform powers the off-campus housing listing service
at the nation's leading universities.</mdui:Description>

As indicated by the diff, the bad characters no longer exist in metadata. If
your SP is still having an issue, clear the metadata backing file and restart
the SP to load fresh metadata.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at


Tom Scavo
Operations Manager
InCommon.org


________________________________________
From: Thomas Scavo
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 7:52 PM
To:

Cc: InCommon Administration
Subject: metadata was NOT published today!

For some unknown reason, the metadata signing process did not run to
completion today. Consequently, a new metadata file was not published to the
server. To compensate, we are planning to sign metadata twice tomorrow, once
in the morning and once in the afternoon.

The metadata currently on the server was signed and published last Friday,
March 18. Today’s metadata updates will be published tomorrow (Tuesday)
morning at approximately 9:00 am ET. We will then sign and publish metadata
again at the usual time, between 2:30 and 3:30 pm ET.

No metadata has been lost or compromised. Once we know why today’s metadata
signing process failed, we will follow up with details.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have questions
or concerns, please contact us at


Tom Scavo
Operations Manager
InCommon.org



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