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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi">Shibboleth SP Version 2.5.6</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am having problems with hyperlinks in Microsoft office products. I am wondering if someone could help me with this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I followed the fix as documented in:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Tips+on+Integrating+Things#TipsonIntegratingThings-MicrosoftWordClickableLinks">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Tips+on+Integrating+Things#TipsonIntegratingThings-MicrosoftWordClickableLinks</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For the most part the fix works, except for a nagging error page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This is what I did:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In shibboleth2.xml I have added:
</span><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333">outgoingBindings="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST”<o:p></o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi"> <SessionInitiator type="Chaining" Location="/Login" isDefault="true" id="Intranet"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi"> relayState="cookie" entityID="https://pingd.blahblahblah.com/idp"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>outgoingBindings="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST"></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi"> <SessionInitiator type="SAML2" acsIndex="1" template="bindingTemplate.html"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi"> <SessionInitiator type="Shib1" acsIndex="5"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:r_ansi"> </SessionInitiator></span><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After adding the above, when I click on a link from MS word document, two browser sessions show up. One with SSO login page and a second one indicating an error. After I supply the credentials
in SSO login page the page behind the URL displays. The part is fine. However, the browser session that indicates the error bothers me. I am wondering if there is any way to suppress this. Following is the content of the error page:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3D454D">Unexpected System Error
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3D454D">Sorry for the inconvenience. Please contact your administrator for assistance and provide the reference number below to help locate and correct the problem.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3D454D">Reference#:
</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:ProximaNovaBold;color:#3D454D">qfitvl</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#3D454D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The behavior is not consistent. The above error page shows up sometimes and it doesn’t at other times. I could not figure out the condition that make the error page show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks in advance for your help in this regard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Murthy Nunna<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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