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Scott_85950
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Jun 17, 2008

Firepass %username% promoted to Portal App URI

We have a web app published through Portal Access. In it, the URI string references the %username%, whereby the web app matches it to AD and provides single sign on for the end user. IE offers this ...
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Scott_85950
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Jun 18, 2008
Answer Found;

 

 

the %username% is actually populated from the Firepass logon credentials, sweet. It appears the actual issue is with the enabled Caching and Compression we use for preformance as it appears Firefox users are able to access the application the first time without issue but Firepass code is "spit out" the second time because it is attempting to pull from Cache. With Caching and Compression disabled, the original problem went away.

 

 

Problem Solved!