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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

> On 2019-11-25, at 09:40, Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti AT garr.it> wrote:
> 
> as previously announced, the eduGAIN OT is now ready to deliver two
> eduGAIN metadata feeds:
> 
> - the stable one, produced with the current tools, at**:
>  http://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v1.xml
> 
> - the beta one, produced with updated tools, at:
>  http://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v1-beta.xml
> 
> ** The stable feed is also available at the legacy MDS location
>   http://mds.edugain.org

Hi Davide,

I'm just clarifying my understanding of where the various feeds are. I also 
see on https://technical.edugain.org//metadata

> The feeds http://mds.edugain.org and 
> https://mds.edugain.org/feed-sha256.xml are just copies of 
> http://mds.edugain.org//edugain-v1.xml and are provided for backwards 
> compalitibility but should be considered deprecated.

Other than the typo, I'm curious that one of those has https://. Is https:// 
in general a supported equivalent for http:// on this domain? Is it just 
something that works but is not supported?

I ask because at some point in the past we (UKf) seem to have started using 
https://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v1.xml as the location we are pulling the 
production feed from, and from the above it looks like that was a mistake. 
Can you clarify?

Finally, I can also see a reference in our code to 
http://mds-test.edugain.org, implying that it was presumably a previous 
"test" aggregate (maybe back in 2016, which is when it is dated). Can you 
confirm that's now replaced by the new edugain-v1-beta feed?

Cheers,

    -- Ian

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