net.shibboleth.idp.authn.ExternalAuthenticationException: No conversation key found in request

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/22/15, 1:42 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

>On 3/21/15, 4:59 AM, "Kathy E. Wright" <kewrig at clemson.edu> wrote:
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>>I am trying to test our 2.4 production config with a new Shibboleth IDP 3.1 install and are getting this error using the RemoteUser profile:
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>>net.shibboleth.idp.authn.ExternalAuthenticationException: No conversation key found in request
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>>Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
>
>Either there's a bug nobody's reported, or there's something wrong I can't explain. You'll have to trace the redirect the IdP is performing and look at the URL it's hitting when it invokes the servlet it's running to do the authentication step.
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>The URL should have a query string with a parameter named "conversation" in it. That parameter apparently isn't there.

Also, by default the URL path should just be /idp/Authn/RemoteUser?conversation=nnnn, so that's the one to look for in a Firefox or Fiddler trace or whatever.

-- Scott