The Shibboleth IdP V4 software has reached its End of Life and is no longer supported. This documentation is available for historical purposes only. See the IDP5 wiki space for current documentation on the supported version.
MetadataProviderAttributes
The <MetadataProvider>
element supports a large number of XML attributes. For convenience, these are grouped into the following categories:
Supported on all metadata provider types (with some noted exceptions)
Supported on the reloading metadata providers: https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1265631665 , FilesystemMetadataProvider , and FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider
Supported on the dynamic metadata providers: DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider  and https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IDP4/pages/1265631642
Supported on the HTTP metadata providers: DynamicHTTPMetadataProvider and FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider
The content on the child pages themselves is intentionally taken out of context. The child pages function as include documents for all of the metadata provider pages including the pages listed above.