Error Message with IdP "LoginContext key cookie was not present in request"

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Sat Jan 4 15:53:19 EST 2014


On 1/4/14, 3:56 AM, "Patrick Rynhart" <P.Rynhart at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>Firstly, I thought that the "LoginContext key cookie" message was the
>cause (and the message displayed in the UI a fallback / secondary error
>message, i.e. not necessarily the "cause").

That's incorrect.

>To answer your question, the message displayed in the UI is:

Which means you changed your signing key without updating your metadata
and doing a controlled key rollover.

>This suggests that it's a metadata issue.  If so, the problem now is
>that I haven't changed the metadata at my end (and I'm successfully
>federated with other external SPs which are still working.)  I've also
>been in touch with Lynda.com technical support who have said that my
>metadata hasn't been changed at their end.

Your key did change, or the error wouldn't have occurred. Or the metadata
given to the SP did in fact change and no longer is correct.

-- Scott




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