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<p class="MsoPlainText">Since the IDP validation is only accessible to the people in customer network, I had to use tcpdump on our Linux shibboleth installation server to capture the tcpstream exchanged during the federation and ACS redirection.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I compared a successful federation exchange (between our shibboleth SP and another customers with relaystate set ss:mem) with the federation exchange with CA Site Mider where ACS redirection is not orking.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I found that in successful federation and ACS redirection the tcpstream shows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">... SAMLResponse=…<span style="font-size:8.0pt">2V3D%3D&<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">RelayState=ss%3Amem%3</span>Ac769c3127d7f69dbd118ab58d54ce6a68f1e748469fbae860ac18a3c1767ba2bHTTP/1.1 302 Found</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">In case of the unsuccessful ACS redirection with CA Sit Minder I see that RelayState is missing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">…SAMLResponse=PFJlc3…HTTP/1.1 302 Found<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Trying to confirm that the above missing relaystate in SAML response is causing the ACS redirection to an incorrect link? I can then approach our customer to tweak CA Site Minder to include the relayState.
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Raja<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: users-bounces@shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Cantor, Scott<br>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:57 PM<br>
To: Shib Users<br>
Subject: Re: CA Site Minder IDP : Shibboleth SP</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On 4/8/14, 8:55 PM, "Bhattacharjee, Raja" <<a href="mailto:Raja.Bhattacharjee@Level3.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Raja.Bhattacharjee@Level3.com</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>When you say to check the relay handling, is there any easy way to do
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>this within shibboleth configuration and logs or do I capture packets
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>using say tcpsump?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">All of this goes through the browser, all you need is LiveHeaders or SAML Tracer or similar tools.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-- Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">--<o:p></o:p></p>
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