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  • 1.  Endless Redirects happening

    Posted Mon July 15, 2024 01:30 PM

    COGNOS 11.2.4 , it appears if user forgets to logoff and closes browser, the next time they open browser and attempt log in they get stuck in an endless redirect.  The browser seems to think the cookie is valid and redirect them to home perspective, but COGNOS keeps redirecting back to login page, repeat until they get a header too long error.  Only fix is to delete cookies and restart browser.  How do we stop this?   It just started all of a sudden and I have no clue why as we haven't made any system changes.

    Example broken url

    https://ourserver.cognos.org/ibmcognos/bi/?perspective=home&m_redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fourserver.cognos.org%2Fibmcognos%2Fbi%2F%3Fperspective%3Dhome%26m_redirect%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fourserver.cognos.org%252Fibmcognos%252Fbi%252F%253Fperspective%253Dhome%2526m_redirect%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fourserver.cognos.org%25252Fibmcognos%25252Fbi%25252F%25253Fperspective%25253Dhome%252526m_redirect%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fourserver.cognos.org%2525252Fibmcognos%2525252Fbi%2525252F%2525253Fperspective%2525253Dhome%25252526m_redirect%2525253Dhttps%252525253A%252525252F%252525252Fourserver.cognos.org%252525252Fibmcognos%252525252Fbi%252525252F%252525253Fperspective%252525253Dhome%2525252526m_redirect%252525253Dhttps%25252525253A%25252525252F%25252525252Fourserver.cognos.org%25252525252Fibmcognos%25252525252Fbi%25252525252F%25252525253Fperspective%25252525253Dhome%252525252526m_redirect%25252525253Dhttps%2525252525253A%2525252525252F%2525252525252Fourserver.cognos.org%2525252525252Fibmcognos%2525252525252Fbi%2525252525252F



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    Chris Stadler
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  • 2.  RE: Endless Redirects happening

    Posted Tue July 16, 2024 01:48 PM

    I guess this issue only happens in Chrome.

    Did you try Firefox ESR?



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    JEAM COELHO
    Cognos Solution Architect

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeamcoelho/
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  • 3.  RE: Endless Redirects happening

    Posted Wed July 17, 2024 02:34 AM

    Hi Chris,

    did you check if there was an update of IIS on the server (if you use IIS and Windows).
    I once had a problem with an infinite loop when the IIS configuration for the gateway/SSO got corrupted. the only solution was to re-run the IIS config script (make a backup of the current config before!)



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    Robert Dostal
    Team Leader BI
    GEMÜ Gebr. Müller Apparatebau GmbH & Co. KG
    Ingelfingen
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  • 4.  RE: Endless Redirects happening

    Posted Wed July 17, 2024 08:22 AM

    If this ever happens to anyone else

    1. Log directly into each dispatcher and check advanced settings for a login redirect url
    2. If when you hit the magic one, it starts looping add ?factoryMode=true to your url
    3. remove all login redirects that manifested themselves inside a single dispatcher because apparently the setting aren't syncing somewhere.


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    Chris Stadler
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