links in word documents & Shib

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Jan 17 15:42:40 EST 2013


On 1/17/13 3:32 PM, "Stapleton, Steven J. (James)" <stapleton.41 at osu.edu>
wrote:

>Has anyone had an issue where you have a link in a word document, and it
>opens in shibboleth, you get the 'back or bookmark' error (below).
>
>If you copy and paste the link into the browser, it works fine, you go to
>the proper document without an error.
>
>This has happened with the default browser of Firefox, IE in Windows.
>I've not tested anything else yet. Does anyone know how to fix it if
>they've seen it?

The primary fix, if it's sufficient, is to stop using cookies for relay
state and switch it to "ss:mem" to match the latest defaults.

If there are other problems causing the issue, it probably isn't fixable
(or I should say is a Microsoft bug).

-- Scott




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