[mdx] [Shib-Dev] Dynamic Metadata Provider for IdP

[Scott Cantor]

> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.  For a look up by entity ID
> you'd have something like
> 
> <baseUrl>/<urlEcodedEntityID>
> 
> for a look up by artifact hash you'd have
> 
> <baseUrl>/{sha}<hash>

That was basically the original question, which seemed to be "can the plugin
hash the entityID when it creates the URL"?

In that case, the two cases would look identical, and I was trying to
understand if that was ok.

I think what you may be saying is, "no, but you don't do that".

> or, if you knew you were always going to query the test collection you
> would just put the "test+" part first as part of the base URL.  What
> the plugin wouldn't be able to do is figure out what additional tags
> to add on the fly, at least not as I was planning.  I don't know how
> it would be able to.

Sure.

-- Scott