Relay State parameter issue

Brent Putman putmanb at georgetown.edu
Fri Jan 16 16:42:08 EST 2015


On 1/16/15 4:25 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
>
> Yeah, me either.  I can look, but I don't recall any special handling of
> RelayState.  We just pull it in as a String and it gets sent back out
> unmolested, as far as I know.

There is no special handling.  Assuming outbound is SAML 2 POST: I used
the unit tests to confirm correct output when it's a "/":

<input type="hidden" name="RelayState" value="&#x2f;"/>   

(which is the HTML-encoded form, as expected).

Also confirmed that the SAML 2 Redirect decoder doesn't lose it.  If
this isn't a Shib SP, it's possible that they have a bug and are using
an incorrect parameter name (wrong case, etc) and so the decoder isn't
picking it up.

Otherwise, I don't see how this could happen.  If you still think this
to be the case, I would need to see the actual inbound redirect binding
URL (e.g. from Firefox LiveHeaders) and the form that's being sent
outbound (turn off Javascript in your browser and examine/save the web
page HTML).



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