Custom SP error messages

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Dec 3 13:27:31 EST 2012


On 12/3/12 12:57 PM, "Ryan Suarez" <ryan.suarez at sheridancollege.ca> wrote:
>
>I don't know all the details, but the hostname in the URL points to
>their load balancer and there are a number of shib SP nodes behind it.
>The reason I suspect it's node specific is because it's difficult to
>reproduce the error.  Most of the time it works, sometimes we get the
>error.

That's probably because the URL as a whole is some kind of unusual or
atypical value, not because it's being processed differently. Or if so,
the configuration of the nodes is different.

There is no mystery here, the error always means that a request for a
handler came into a system that doesn't think the URL of its handlers
matches what it was given. This happens on IIS because dispatch to
handlers is based on file extension (*.sso).

I can ask for /Foo.sso and that won't work because the handlerURL is
/Shibboleth.sso.

-- Scott




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