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Shaun Mangelsdorf  
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 More options May 28, 11:10 am
From: "Shaun Mangelsdorf" <s.mangelsd...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:10:46 +1000
Local: Wed, May 28 2008 11:10 am
Subject: Re: [esoe-users] strange apache spep redirect problem

Hi Jim,

I am concerned that it might be the " Couldn't verify existing

> session: " that is creating the problem, because then it just
> immediately tries to create a new session.

I agree with this idea. However this isn't something that I have seen
before, and I'm having trouble reproducing it locally.

Also: sometimes it will eventually redirect back to the application

> after a few iterations of the redirects. Other times it will never
> work and stay in the loop indefinitely (but if i interrupt the loop by
> typing in "https://mywebapp.domain.com", everything works as it should
> and I am successfully authenticated and all my attributes are passed
> through to mywebapp.)

Based on this, I have a theory about what could be happening, which is that
you are getting sent back to the authenticated content before the session is
properly inserted in the session cache. I have developed a patch which will
ensure that this can not happen. Hopefully this will fix your problem.

I have attached the patch. You should apply it to the top level of the
spep-0.5.2 source tree before rebuilding, by typing:

patch -p0 < patch-blocking-session-inserts.diff

Let me know how you go with this. Hope it helps!

Thanks,
Shaun

  patch-blocking-session-inserts.diff
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