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human readable description of AssertionError

See original GitHub issue

It would be helpful if the AssertionError contains a human readable error message so that it can be presented to the client.

Traceback (most recent call last):
    response = self.sp.parse_authn_request_response(message, binding, self.outstanding_queries, self.outstanding_certs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/saml2/client_base.py", line 573, in parse_authn_request_response
    binding, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/saml2/entity.py", line 949, in _parse_response
    response = response.verify(key_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/saml2/response.py", line 853, in verify
    res = self._verify()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/saml2/response.py", line 391, in _verify
    assert self.issue_instant_ok()
AssertionError

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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c00kiemon5tercommented, Oct 8, 2018

I am closing this, as it has been fixed. Thanks for looking into this.

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sheilatroncommented, Oct 8, 2018

I bumped into this confusing error while testing an older version, and the broad exception raising seems to have been corrected in newer versions. Here is the fix commit from @rohe

https://github.com/IdentityPython/pysaml2/commit/5518bd69f572600eea035c5b9958354ea11b58e0#diff-b22d07287a1f7d4a4ae80402fa1bd832

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