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[Jozef Misutka <misutka AT ufal.mff.cuni.cz>]

On 3/3/2017 1:25 PM, Lukas Hämmerle wrote:
> On 03.03.17 12:50, Leif Johansson wrote:
> > > this and adapt ECCS. As you say, this would however mean that each IdP
> > > currently would be hammered more than a thousand requests per day
> > good!
> Admit it Leif, you bribed Jozef to ask for the same feature, right?
If that was on a public mailing list, I missed it.

> @Jozef: How many beers does he owe you ;-)

;) on the contrary, we both will owe the one who implements it.

> > just add an extension to the authnrequest saying this is a probe
> That's an option, but obviously would result in some (limited) extra
> work at all federations that monitor these requests.
>
>
> > this would introduce too much delay for the applications I've been
> > thinking about - its more important that the API returns quickly
> > then that the test is 100% fresh IMO
> Yes, I think I can agree with that.

For us a regular monitoring would be enough, from time to time (or after 
a change) checking if the number of not working IdPs increased considerably.

jm
> Best Regards
> Lukas