Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Tom Mitchell <>]

On Jul 28, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Tom Scavo <> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Tom Mitchell <> wrote:

The first URL is from the spec, and serves up some text. The other two will
serve up the real data grabbed from the MDQ beta server. I think they
represent the two main kinds of entity IDs in InCommon and eduGAIN. Let me
know if I should try others.

This is good progress, Tom, but you've saved the most difficult parts
to last :-)

Click this link in your browser:
http://mdq-beta.incommon.org/global/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Aosu.edu

Note that there are two IDs that return the same metadata:

urn:mace:incommon:osu.edu
{sha1}d4d1ca999a5a9352fa618075eac456eb67956c74

The MDQ server needs to support both.

Great, thanks. I had only read the base protocol, not the SAML profile.

The following works via apache:

http://example.com/entities/%7Bsha1%7Dd4d1ca999a5a9352fa618075eac456eb67956c74

Is that the correct URL syntax?

Also note that I’ve switched to example.com here. I don’t know who myserver.org is and I’m embarrassed to have put it in my previous email without thinking. These are fake URLs because I don’t want my server name in the mailing list logs as I said previously.

As a small thing, the content-type is wrong. It should be

Content-Type: application/samlmetadata+xml

not

Content-Type: text/html

I think that’s fairly trivially resolved with a DefaultType or ForceType directive. I’ll experiment.