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I am seeing a very strange failure with Shibboleth 2.0 SP on Windows 2003 Server with Apache as the web server when using a Discovery Service.  I cannot reproduce it in any other environment (switch to IIS or RHEL, and I was told by someone else seeing the same failure, it doesn’t reproduce in any of the XPs with Apache).  No error messages are logged in shibd.log or native.log. 

 

The SP redirects me to the Discovery Service, I select the  IDP, the Discovery Service redirects me back, and then Shibboleth shows this error message:

Please include the following message in any email:

shibsp::ConfigurationException at (http://winsp.ref.gfipm.net/Shibboleth.sso/DS)

Target resource was not an absolute URL.

The full URL that the Discovery Service sends me back to the SP with is identical (other than SP hostname) as working RHEL and Windows/IIS deployments:

 

http://myhostname/Shibboleth.sso/DS?SAMLDS=1&target=cookie&entityID=myIdPEntityID

 

I peeked through the source code, and I can’t really come up with a reason for the failure, but it might be easy to get some more useful diagnostics with some minor tweaks (include the strings that caused the failure) on line 208 of AbstractSPRequest.cpp

 

Unfortunately I do not have a build environment available in Windows at this time, or I’d tweak it and give it a try myself.  I can run test builds though if available.