Small bug report for Shib IdP 2.3.5

[Ian Young]

On 27 Jun 2012, at 15:39, David Gersic wrote:

> 16:19:44.333 - ERROR [edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.config.BaseService:188] - Configuration was not loaded for shibboleth.AttributeResolver service, error creating components.  The root cause of this error was: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
> 
> It's easy enough to work around this, by simply changing the configured password to something else without the "&" in it, but I'm not convinced that this shouldn't have worked.

This isn't Shibboleth-specific.  The error message is telling you that principalCredential="Change&Me1" is not well-formed XML.  In XML, '&' characters in values generally need to be encoded as "&".

Hope this helps,

	-- Ian



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