or at least have a boolean that can be flipped to disable this.

On Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 9:29:23 PM UTC-4, Josh G wrote:
>
> Its worth mentioning this issue is related to the following from July:
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!searchin/cas-user/RequestId|sort:date/cas-user/tm8aQrzKDbc/e4I2dkgVCQAJ
>
> https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!searchin/cas-user/RequestId|sort:date/cas-user/iQSoUno6Bms/zrQf5Ex-CAAJ
>
> I'd like to reiterate that patching the client is not a fix here, the core 
> of 5.3 needs to be patched to gracefully accept a null RequestID as all 
> previous versions of CAS have.
>
> On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 3:25:32 PM UTC-4, Josh G wrote:
>>
>>
>> CAS 5.3.x introduces a breaking change to how RequestIDs are handled when 
>> validating SAML Services.
>>
>> *In 5.2.x (and all previous version of CAS), if the RequestID is not 
>> present, it will gracefully fail by returning a null value:*
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/apereo/cas/blob/5.2.x/support/cas-server-support-saml/src/main/java/org/apereo/cas/support/saml/authentication/principal/SamlServiceFactory.java
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> requestId = extractRequestId(requestBody);
>>
>> /**
>>  * Extract request id from the body.
>>  *
>>  * @param requestBody the request body
>>  * @return the string
>>  */
>> private static String extractRequestId(final String requestBody) {
>>     if (!requestBody.contains("RequestID")) {
>>         LOGGER.debug("Request body does not contain a request id");
>>         return null;
>>     }
>>
>>     try {
>>         final int position = requestBody.indexOf("RequestID=\"") + 
>> CONST_REQUEST_ID_LENGTH;
>>         final int nextPosition = requestBody.indexOf('"', position);
>>
>>         return requestBody.substring(position, nextPosition);
>>     } catch (final Exception e) {
>>         LOGGER.debug("Exception parsing RequestID from request.", e);
>>         return null;
>>     }
>> }
>>      
>>
>>
>> *In 5.3.x, if the RequestID is not present it will throw a 
>> NullPointerException:*
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/apereo/cas/blob/5.3.x/support/cas-server-support-saml/src/main/java/org/apereo/cas/support/saml/authentication/principal/SamlServiceFactory.java#L63
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *@NonNullfinal Attribute requestIdAttribute = 
>> requestChild.getAttribute("RequestID"); requestId = 
>> requestIdAttribute.getValue();This change will break all versions of 
>> apereo/mod_auth_cas (See: https://github.com/apereo/mod_auth_cas/issues/148 
>> <https://github.com/apereo/mod_auth_cas/issues/148>) along with any other 
>> client that does not properly implement support for the RequestID 
>> parameter.*
>>
>> This change should be reverted (this is as simple as removing the 
>> @NonNull Lombok annotation so the request will failback to a null 
>> response). Breaking every install of mod_auth_cas along with other legacy 
>> clients cannot be considered acceptable.
>>
>

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