A "GET" request is a request from a client to the server. Thus, your log is showing that the vendor is sending the wrong data (some serialized Java object that contains a String object).
~ James On May 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Joel Goguen <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a vendor performing a load test on one of our services, which > requires them to authenticate through CAS. As far as load on the CAS server > itself goes, the load is not substantially higher than what we would see > during the standard academic year and to use the service you'd never know > there was a load test going on. However, they've noted that they get a large > number of "CAS is Unavailable" errors with a URL that looks strange to me: > > https://casserver/cas/login?username=[Ljava.lang.String;@6f7a51f3&submit=[Ljava.lang.String;@479a61b2&_eventId=[Ljava.lang.String;@688411d7&service=[Ljava.lang.String;@36af6fdc<=[Ljava.lang.String;@37d8f090&password=[Ljava.lang.String;@3999a95&execution=[Ljava.lang.String;@5973ae0b > > According to the server logs, the sequence of events is: > - GET request to /cas/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fservice%2Fauth%2Flogin > (result: 200 OK) > - POST request to /cas/login?service=http%3A%2F%2Fservice%2Fauth%2Flogin > (result: 302 Found) > - GET request to > /cas/login?username=[Ljava.lang.String;@6f7a51f3&submit=[Ljava.lang.String;@479a61b2&_eventId=[Ljava.lang.String;@688411d7&service=[Ljava.lang.String;@36af6fdc<=[Ljava.lang.String;@37d8f090&password=[Ljava.lang.String;@3999a95&execution=[Ljava.lang.String;@5973ae0b > (result: 500 Internal Server Error) > > With the stock CAS logging configuration (as provided with CAS 3.5.0) I see > absolutely nothing in cas.log or catalina.out to indicate what may be going > wrong. I'm not even sure this URL comes from CAS though. We've never seen a > "CAS is Unavailable" page before, except for that one time where I made a > really stupid configuration mistake, and even then the URL I got at that time > was "/cas/login?service=<URL-encoded service URL>". Does the URL the vendor > is seeing come from CAS? If so, does anyone have any recommendations on what > logging to increase to find the issue? > > -- > Joel Goguen > Developer / System Administrator > Enterprise Solutions > Information Technology Services > University of New Brunswick > E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Phone: (506) 453-4872 > Fax: (506) 453-3590 > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
