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Modify the Tomcat catalina.properties File (Tomcat 6.0.18 or higher)

If you deploy Federation Web Services on an Apache Tomcat server 6.0.18 or higher, a configuration change for SAML POST and Artifact transactions is required. You must add a configuration parameter to the catalina.properties file.

To modify the catalina.properties file

1. Navigate to Tomcat_home/conf.

   Tomcat_home

   Specifies the installed location of the Tomcat application server.

2. Open the catalina.properties file.
3. Add the following configuration parameter in the "String cache configuration" section of the file:

   org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true

   The following is a sample of entries in the Catalina.properties file:

   # String cache configuration.
   tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.byte.enabled=true
   #tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.char.enabled=true
   #tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.trainThreshold=500000
   #tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.cacheSize=5000
   org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true