CAS tickets length/format

[Cantor, Scott]

> My original problem with the Ruby on Rails application was tracked down to
> the fact that the CAS service validate response includes the <?xml
> version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line (system/views/cas/header.vm).
> Customizing this file (actually a copy in views/cas) to drop that line fixed the
> problem. I assume that newer Ruby on Rails code and/or associated gems
> would not have this issue.

Any code that broke because of a valid XML declaration should not be trusted to process XML. You are putting yourself at risk using it.

-- Scott