Eduserv have been made aware of the issue and technical colleagues are
working with Westlaw to help ascertain where the problem lies.
Best regards,
Andy
AJ Anderson
Eduserv Help: Team Leader
Eduserv
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments [mailto:JISC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Fraser
> Sent: 15 May 2009 15:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Problems today?
>
> Nicole Harris wrote:
> > They use an OpenAthensSP so it is probably something that Eduserv
> will
> > need to be altered to. I'm not sure if Service Providers CAN meddle
> > with their OpenAthensSPs...but I don't know enough about the
> individual
> > set-up.
>
> Maybe that explain why, if I go to <http://www.westlaw.co.uk/>, click
> login via home organisation (as distinct from Athens login), I get
> passed to the UK Federation WAYF but, having successfully
authenticated
> at Oxford I'm then presented with the error message, "The provided
> Athens Account does not have permission to access Westlaw UK. Log out
> of
> Athens and try again" (and no, we are not an Athens site).
>
> Of course, when it works, Oxford has its own shibboleth path to
Westlaw
> via Metalib.
>
> Mike
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