InCommon metadata support

[Rob Moser <>]

Hello All,

I'm not sure if any of this would count as a bug, or if I'm just 
fundamentally misunderstanding the interface (I am a new Delegated Admin).

As a Delegated Admin, I logged in to the Federation Manager and edited 
the metadata for one of the SP entities over which I have delegated 
authority.  I cut-and-pasted some of values into the edit form, and I 
believe the value for the Location URL of the Discovery Response must 
have ended up with a trailing space on the end.  I hit "Submit Changes" 
and it took me to a page that I _think_ is supposed to indicate that the 
changes are awaiting approval (though that's a bit unclear.)

One of our site admins then logged in to approve my change, but when she 
submitted, it returned an error message saying:

Entities is invalid
location attributes must be http or https urls

And would not accept the update.  Eventually I discovered the trailing 
space in the produced metadata, and convinced the interface to remove it 
(I appeared to have to make non-whitespace changes first, submit, then 
change it back to the original value but without the whitespace in order 
to get it to recognize the change.  But I am not 100% certain of this.)

So:

1) If there is something structurally wrong with my submissions as a 
Delegated Admin, shouldn't it tell _me_ that, when I submit it for approval?

2) If trailing whitespace is not allowed, perhaps the interface should 
strip it?

3) If it isn't going to be stripped, and whitespace is relevant, I would 
think the interface should allow me to make whitespace-only changes. 
(Though again, I may have just misinterpreted the results when I tried 
this.)

Or am I just misunderstanding the intended roles of the Delegated and 
Site Admins?

Thanks for any advice,

     - rob.