<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Cantor, Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu">cantor.2@osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Just a quick followup... the issue was in the application which was silently<br>
> discarding all header variables upon reaching one without a value. And<br>
> apparently either the Shib SP or the proxy likes sending value-less header<br>
> variables (e.g. "Shib-AuthnContent-Decl:") the moment ShibUseHeaders got<br>
> turned on. Now that the application ignores these and reads the rest it<br>
> eventually gets to the last few, including the critical one (Content-Length:).<br>
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</div>The SP is doing that, because if it didn't, values sent by the client would spoof any headers you want to rely on. The empty ones are "cleared".<br></blockquote><div><br>That certainly makes sense! Thanks for pushing me in the right direction earlier (i.e. keeping me from barking up the wrong tree).<br>
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