Hi Sara,
Thanks for the reply.
We heard about this work around last week. However, we will very shortly (hopefully next week) move from iChain to Access Manager, so there's not much point in us spending time looking at this now.
Thanks anyway.
Regards,
Christopher
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From: Discussion list for Shibboleth developments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sara Hopkins
Sent: 09 August 2010 11:43
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Subject: Re: Problem with Firefox after upgrading to Shibboleth 2
Hi Christopher,
Your original posting is now nearly two months old, but I thought it
might be worth replying now anyway, if you're still experiencing issues
with this. Another organisation quite recently experienced similar
intermittent problems with an iChain-fronted Shibboleth 2 IdP.
Investigation pointed to cacheing in iChain, and it turns out that
iChain will honour cache settings from the web server. They initially
experimented with cache settings in Apache, but what eventually did the
trick was adding the following to the login.jsp file
response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
response.setDateHeader("Expires", -1);
They needed to purge the iChain cache after the Tomcat restart to make
the settings take effect.
Regards,
Sara Hopkins
SDSS Support Team
On 15/06/2010 14:18, McLeod, Christopher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We upgraded from Shibboleth 1.3 to 2.1 a few days ago. We had 'a few
> issues' but most of these have now been resolved.
>
> However, we have an ongoing issue with Firefox and other non-IE browsers.
>
> We are currently using Novell iChain, but will move to NAM shortly.
>
> When a user tries to log in, upon entering their username and password
> and clicking the login button, the user (sometimes but not always) gets
> a 'white page' (url /idp/Authn/UserPassword). Clicking 'reload current
> page' lets the user into the resource as normal.
>
> This issue has never been seen on IE. It's been seen on campus as well
> as off, on different platforms (Windows and Linux) and with different
> versions of Firefox.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this or a similar issue? Any advise welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher
>
> Christopher McLeod
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