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OpenSSO web agent conflicts with the MediaWiki parser, and a workaround

LDAP, MediaWiki

Recently, I deployed OpenSSO as a web single sign on service for a number of web servers, one of which was running MediaWiki. I haven’t yet written a SAML2 plugin for MediaWiki, so I am running an OpenSSO web agent for Apache, with the LDAP plugin doing auto-authentication.

After deploying the web agent, MediaWiki started parsing things incorrectly. Wiki-syntax like:

== Test ==
== Test2 ==
=== Test 3 ===

Was being corrupted, and turning into something like:

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Louisiana Technology Council (LTC) Blog Fail

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I occasionally get a newsletter from the Louisiana Technology Council (LTC). The most recent newsletter I received was too good not to post about. Here’s the newsletter:

http://www.ltc-la.org/en/art/422/

I’ll pull a few great quotes out of it for you…

You are invited to participate in a survey designed to learn about business blog. A business blog is a novel way of publishing information by or with the support of an organization where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

This is the Louisiana Technology Council right? Did this come out of a dictionary? Is this really the best way to describe a blog?

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