What CAS client are they using to redirect to CAS?

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Tim McLaughlin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We've got an off-site service using CAS that involves really long service
> URLs like so:
>
> https://illiad.wwu.edu/illiad/illiad.dll/OpenURL?genre=article&issn=1360-31
> 08&title=Perspectives+%28Association+of+University+Administrators+%28U.K.%2
> 9%29&aulast=Taylor%2C+Barry&volume=15&issue=4&date=2011&atitle=Reflections+
> on+higher+education+and+the+media.&spage=117&sid=EBSCO%253AAcademic%2BSearc
> h%2BComplete%28via%253A%2B360Link%29&pid=Interlibrary%20Loan
>
>
> The CAS URL, while the user is on the login form, is this:
>
> https://websso.wwu.edu/cas//login?service=https://illiad.wwu.edu/illiad/ill
> iad.dll/OpenURL%3fgenre%3darticle%26issn%3d1360-3108%26title%3dPerspectives
> %2b%28Association%2bof%2bUniversity%2bAdministrators%2b%28U.K.%29%29%26aula
> st%3dTaylor%2C%2bBarry%26volume%3d15%26issue%3d4%26date%3d2011%26atitle%3dR
> eflections%2bon%2bhigher%2beducation%2band%2bthe%2bmedia.%26spage%3d117%26s
> id%3dEBSCO%253AAcademic%2BSearch%2BComplete%28via%253A%2B360Link%29%26pid%3
> dInterlibrary%20Loan
>
> Most of the service is properly URLencoded, but notice that the first
> part, https://illiad.wwu.edu/illiad/illiad.dll/OpenURL isn't.  I don't
> know if that's important, but it seems odd.
>
> Here's the kicker, though: when the user is authenticated, the URL that
> CAS redirects to is the URLencoded version, not the "original" version, so
> the user gets a 404 from the application.
>
> We have other services that use CAS and a couple have complicated URLs
> like this, but they get handled properly.  Is that something that the
> application is responsible for resolving, or should CAS be redirecting to
> the URLdecoded version?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has an idea as to what could be going on with this
> one?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
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