Interesting. Is this something you can reproduce?

On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 9:49:38 PM UTC+4 richard.frovarp wrote:

> I'm on CAS 6.6.6. I had a SAML 2 service that was trying to pull 
> metadata from a remote URL. This request timed out (discovered a 
> firewall in the way). That ended up causing all of my other SAML 2 
> services to time out as well. The CAS protocol services were just fine. 
> In my logs I see:
>
> 2023-03-14 11:02:05,949 ERROR [org.apereo.cas.util.HttpUtils] - <Connect 
> to hostname failed: connect timed out
>         DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:connect:151
>         PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:connect:376
>         MainClientExec.java:establishRoute:393
> >
> 2023-03-14 11:02:05,949 ERROR 
> [org.apereo.cas.support.saml.services.idp.metadata.cache.resolver.UrlResourceMetadataResolver]
>  
>
> - <NullPointerException
>         UrlResourceMetadataResolver.java:resolve:107
> SamlRegisteredServiceMetadataResolverCacheLoader.java:lambda$load$1:66
>         Unchecked.java:lambda$function$21:878
>
>
> Since it timed out, there is no status line to get a status code for. 
> That caused the NPE. I see this error a few times, so I don't know if 
> CAS was doing a retry, or my browser was trying it.
>
> I also see a different set of errors for the same service:
>
> 2023-03-14 10:44:23,080 ERROR 
> [org.apereo.cas.support.saml.services.idp.metadata.SamlRegisteredServiceServiceProviderMetadataFacade]
>  
>
> - <No metadata resolvers could be configured for service Grouper Devel 
> with metadata location path
> SamlRegisteredServiceMetadataResolverCacheLoader.java:load:72
> SamlRegisteredServiceMetadataResolverCacheLoader.java:load:31
>         LocalLoadingCache.java:lambda$newMappingFunction$3:197
> >
> 2023-03-14 10:44:23,080 WARN 
> [org.apereo.cas.support.saml.web.idp.profile.AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController]
>  
>
> - <No metadata could be found for [entityId]>
> 2023-03-14 10:44:23,080 WARN 
> [org.apereo.cas.util.function.FunctionUtils] - <Cannot find metadata 
> linked to entityId
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:verifySamlAuthenticationRequest:497
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:initiateAuthenticationRequest:315
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:lambda$handleSsoPostProfileRequest$4:652
> >
> 2023-03-14 10:44:23,080 ERROR [org.apereo.cas.web.support.WebUtils] - 
> <Cannot find metadata linked to entityId
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:verifySamlAuthenticationRequest:497
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:initiateAuthenticationRequest:315
>
> AbstractSamlIdPProfileHandlerController.java:lambda$handleSsoPostProfileRequest$4:652
>
> While this was happening, my other SAML 2 services also timed out. 
> Guessing it has to do with the resolver being synchronized? A timeout 
> takes a while to happen, so that would hold up the other services that 
> were good anyway. The fix was to restart CAS. I don't know if the other 
> services were failing as this was continuing to try and timeout, or if 
> the NPE broke things enough. This happened on prod, so we hit the 
> restart pretty quickly. It was on a service that I used and I caused it, 
> so we detected it pretty quickly.
>
> It now can pull the metadata, so things are fine. However, I'm not super 
> thrilled with the idea of one service metadata refresh timing out 
> killing the rest of my SAML 2 services. I could come up with my own 
> caching method into git external to CAS, but as of right now, I'd prefer 
> if CAS was doing it.
>
> Richard
>
>

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