Documentation on 'e' and 's' in execution=eXsY

[Cantor, Scott]

> I am looking for documentation on what the 'e' and the 's' in the string
> 'execution=eXsY', found in various IDP URLs mean,

They aren't somethiing to document, it's an internal detail of Spring WebFlow.
 The entire parameter name and value are opaque, in an official sense, but there's probably some kind of description of them in the SWF documentation. What they are in the implementation is an execution/conversation number and a state number.

> I have noticed that the URL typically contains something like execution=e78s1,
> which seems relatively high, considering the values I see in the logs are usually
> in the low single digits.....

That's an SSO loop. Most loops these days are caused by the abomination of AJAX combined with a failure to deal with timeouts.

-- Scott