Bug #2172
Retrieve credentials no longer works
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 03/07/2012 | |
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| Priority: | Medium | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | - |
Description
While retrieve credentials used to work for me, it no longer seems to.
The tcp port referred to in the URL (e.g. 65038) is opened by the ms client, but I enter my login/password in astakos and either:
a) the sessions seems to time out; or
b) I can log in but the ms client shows a dialog "An error occurred while retrieving credentials"
The connection between the browser and the ms client seems to be successful, shown by the below netstat output:
C:\Users\angus.griffin>netstat -an |grep 65038
TCP 0.0.0.0:65038 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:65038 127.0.0.1:65069 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:65038 127.0.0.1:65070 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:65069 127.0.0.1:65038 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:65070 127.0.0.1:65038 ESTABLISHED
Note that I am not running the latest server software (either pithos or astakos) at present as I am waiting for updated installation documentation to be completed.
Related issues
History
#1 Updated by Angus Griffin about 12 years ago
This is specific to the (out of date) AARNet install.
Please disregard this bug report.
#2 Updated by Panagiotis Kanavos about 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
The issue is caused by an IE's faulty handling of multiple redirects (302). In some cases IE will fail to perform the last redirect. This causes issues because authentication against Shiboleth requires at two redirects (from Astakos to Pithos, from Pithos to the local port).
Solved by using a web browser hosted in an application page, thus bypassing IE's faulty behavior.