[JIRA] Created: (SSPCPP-520) Shibboleth Native SP 2.4.3 - shibboleth2.xml not loadable when a doubble dash "--" exists within a comment ie. between <!-- and -->

[leffe@idp.protectnetwork.org (JIRA)]

Shibboleth Native SP 2.4.3 - shibboleth2.xml not loadable when a doubble dash "--" exists within a comment ie. between <!-- and -->
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                 Key: SSPCPP-520
                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-520
             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Configuration
    Affects Versions: 2.4.3
         Environment: Windows Server 2008-R2
            Reporter: leffe at idp.protectnetwork.org
            Assignee: Scott Cantor
            Priority: Trivial


I added some comments to the shibboleth2.xml and foud that the config wasn't loaded after refreshing the app pool for the actual site.
No samlp:authn request was generated when trying to access the resource.
In native.log i found this:

2012-10-31 08:25:48 INFO Shibboleth.Config [3788] isapi_shib: change detected, signaling reload thread...
2012-10-31 08:25:48 INFO Shibboleth.Config : reloading local resource...
2012-10-31 08:25:48 ERROR XMLTooling.ParserPool : fatal error on line 70, column 1, message: '--' sequence is illegal in comment
2012-10-31 08:25:49 ERROR Shibboleth.Config : error while loading resource (D:/opt/shibboleth-sp/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml): XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics
2012-10-31 08:25:49 CRIT Shibboleth.Config : maintaining existing configuration, error reloading resource (D:/opt/shibboleth-sp/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml): XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics


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