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[Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti AT garr.it>]

Hi,

thanks Maja for the answers and Ian for the useful questions.

I'll work with the eduGAIN OT to update the information on
https://technical.edugain.org/metadata to better reflect the current set up.

Thanks,
Davide


On 26/11/19 11:48, Maja Wolniewicz wrote:
> 
> 
>> Wiadomość napisana przez Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk
>> <mailto:ian AT iay.org.uk>> w dniu 26.11.2019, o godz. 11:30:
>>
>>
>>> On 2019-11-25, at 09:40, Davide Vaghetti <davide.vaghetti AT garr.it
>>> <mailto: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.
> Yes, we put the same feed to edugain-v1.xml, index.xml, feed-sha256.xml
>>
>> 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?
> Both http and https are supported. We don't redirect http to https for now. 
>>
>> 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?
> On mds-test.edugain.org <http://mds-test.edugain.org> is our test
> environment. Perhaps at some point we announced this URL, but not now.
> Now the new edugain-v1-beta feed (produced by the newest pyFF with
> psi:type dropped) is available at
> https://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v1-beta.xml 
> 
> Greetings
> Maja 
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>    -- Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
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