<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>My best chance for quick resolution would be to prevent it from being sent
in the first place.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I just tested the latest 3.1 snapshot, and can't reproduce the problem. I recall the weird characters appeared in the shibd.log under a particular error condition, but I don't recall which one. Have you tested with latest snapshot?</div><div><br></div><div>M</div><div><br></div></div></div>