RelayState parameter name case sensitivity in Federation SPS and WAOP

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On
• SITEMINDER
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

 

When running Federation Services, and having to configure manually the relay state variable. Is RelayState case syntax-case sensitive? Could it be written as relaystate or should it follow the case as RelayState?

It seems when it's written as "relaystate", the parameter isn't detected and thus ignored.

 

Resolution

 

Yes, the parameter is case sensitive and follows RFC 3986 (1)(2).

 

Additional Information

 

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    6.2.2.  Syntax-Based Normalization
       
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    RelayState