Confluence, deep links, Shib, bugs

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/22/13, 2:13 PM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>* Steven Carmody <steven_carmody at brown.edu> [2013-11-22 20:08]:
>> Brown is currently running the ancient Confluence version 3.4.6,
>> which suffers from the "if go to a deep link, and Login required,
>> user is returned to wrong page" bug.
>> 
>> We're about to move to a more current version .. does anyone know if
>> this bug was fixed ? and approximately which Confluence version
>> fixed it ?
>
>This might be more of an Apache rewrite or Confluence remoteUser
>authenticator thing. At least I doubt Confluences doing auth themselfs
>also suffer from this.
>An instance I use which is v4.3.7 also suffers from this.

It's a bug in the way {originalurl} is populated in the seraph-config URL
templates you specify. It's always been simple to work around with a
rewrite rule, and it's still broken AFAIK.

-- Scott