shared link generates "No conversation state found in session for key"

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/20/17, 4:24 PM, "users on behalf of Liam Hoekenga" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of liamr at umich.edu> wrote:

>    We /are/ using an external authenticator.

Oh, duh, that's an error message from the external login flow. I was thinking it was one of the webflow exceptions, I didn't recognize it as mine.

I still couldn't tell you the cause, that's too environmentally specific. What it means is that the object the IdP saves off in the container session for that login exchange is missing. The message happens either before or after the control passes to the external authenticator, same message either way. One case would be if it takes long enough to come back that the session's timed out.

What is the external mechanism? If it's the RemoteUser handler, I can't see anything that would cause it but a timeout related kind of thing since all the manipulation of parameters and the calls into the API are all my code. If it was something custom, that could be a coding error I guess.

-- Scott