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

[Scott Cantor (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-520?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Scott Cantor resolved SSPCPP-520.
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    Resolution: Invalid

That's not a bug, that's not well-formed XML.

> 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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