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IDEM MDX Instructions

The following instructions are meant to be used to retrive metadata by the IDEM MDX service.

For all the configuration a cache duration value of 1 hour (3600 seconds) is chosen. This choice was made taking into account that all the metadata are signed every hour and the validUntil field in the metadata file is 48 hours.

For Shibboleth, we set a maxCacheDuration value equal to 48 hours (172800 seconds), with a refreshDelayFactor of 0.025 to get in case of changes the metadata refresh every hour, like the other configurations.

The configurations implicitly formulates a Metadata Query Protocol URL from the given baseURL.

For example, if the entityID is https://wiki.idem.garr.it/rp, the provider will request the following resource:

https://mdx.idem.garr.it/idem/entities/https:%2F%2Fwiki.idem.garr.it%2Frp

WARNING

Change the baseURL according to the metadata stream you need: