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Comment: add link to conditional GET

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Consumers of eduID.at Metadata, i.e., SAML IDPs and SPs (and potentially SAML IDP Discovery Services) should refresh SAML metadata at least once a day, but preferrably more often. The example Metadata Providers in this documentation are set to a 4-hour refresh (i.e., re-downloading and evaluating the eduID.at SAML metadata 6 times a day – or less often if it can be established that the metadata hasn't changed on the HTTP layer, cf. conditional HTTP GET), shortening the time it takes for the software to learn of new, changed or removed entities.

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