Hi everyone,
I am running into this error when I try to execute a back-channel
communication between 2 CASified applications:

Ticket failed validation specification. Possible errors could include
attempting to validate a Proxy Ticket via a Service Ticket validator, or not
complying with the renew true request.

Some background:
I've got 2 web applications, P1 and C1, both are CASified and both of them
have their proxy call back urls defined, both proxy call back urls are
listening on an HTTPS port, and both of them have valid, non-null PGTs in
the session.  P1 is trying to do a POST to C1.  P1 is a rails application
using the *gunark-rubycas-client* while C1 is a Java application using the
Java CAS Client 3.1.6.  P1 is using the PGT in its session along with the
target url on C1 to generate a proxy ticket and then is including the proxy
ticket in the POST to C1.  I can verify this because I see the proxy ticket
being received by the target url on C1.

What I think is happening is that C1 is thinking this is a service ticket
and is attempting to validate it in the CAS server by calling the
/cas/serviceValidate action and serviceValidate is not accepting the ticket
and giving back the error I identified above.  From doing some reading of
this document: http://www.jasig.org/cas/protocol it seems that
/serviceValidate should not be used to validate a proxy ticket, just a
service ticket.  The CAS Protocol document mentions that there is a
/proxyValidate function that should be used to validate proxy tickets, but,
how

So what are my options here?  Any ideas?  Is there a way to differentiate
between a Proxy Ticket and a Service Ticket?

Thanks for your help,
Venka

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