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

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/4/14, 10:36 PM, "Patrick Rynhart" <P.Rynhart at massey.ac.nz> wrote:

>Is there an "acid test" that I can undertake to verify that the certs
>etc. are consistent on the IdP ?  What about federating with
>testshib.org on our Production box ?  What would this prove (in the
>context of the problem that we're having federating with Lynda.com) ?

Doesn't matter what the SP is, but taking the exact metadata from
lynda.com and using it with another SP would tell you something. If that
works, then the problem has to be with the other server, not yours.

With an SP that takes in many metadata sources, I'd be looking for
duplicates with mismatched key information, as that's a possible source of
misinformation.

>(Aside: We store our certs in CFEngine.  I've been back to the 2011
>check in, and the files at /opt/shibboleth/credentials on the production
>IdP (idp.massey.ac.nz) appear unchanged.)

You're sure up and down that nothing's changed and it just stopped
working. So in that event, I have to conclude that something is wrong with
the SP, something pretty fundamental and unrelated to any software I can
comment on. If code just stops working, it's not the code, it's the
environment it's running in.

-- Scott