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authorBrendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org>2020-03-10 13:49:11 +0000
committerBrendan Abolivier <babolivier@matrix.org>2020-03-10 13:59:22 +0000
commit6b0efe73e21a5d346111df4dd367bc39a03108bb (patch)
tree0e20756775f5c628bc33d3b5b2a5b51a425cc70e /synapse/config
parentMerge pull request #7055 from matrix-org/babolivier/get_time_of_last_push_act... (diff)
downloadsynapse-6b0efe73e21a5d346111df4dd367bc39a03108bb.tar.xz
SAML2: render a comprehensible error page if something goes wrong
If an error happened while processing a SAML AuthN response, or a client
ends up doing a `GET` request to `/authn_response`, then render a
customisable error page rather than a confusing error.
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/config')
-rw-r--r--synapse/config/saml2_config.py26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/config/saml2_config.py b/synapse/config/saml2_config.py
index 423c158b11..db035bdb5d 100644
--- a/synapse/config/saml2_config.py
+++ b/synapse/config/saml2_config.py
@@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ DEFAULT_USER_MAPPING_PROVIDER = (
     "synapse.handlers.saml_handler.DefaultSamlMappingProvider"
 )
 
+SAML2_ERROR_DEFAULT_HTML = """
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <p>Oops! Something went wrong</p>
+        <p>
+            Try logging in again from the application and if the problem persists
+            please contact the administrator.
+        </p>
+    </body>
+</html>
+"""
+
 
 def _dict_merge(merge_dict, into_dict):
     """Do a deep merge of two dicts
@@ -160,6 +172,13 @@ class SAML2Config(Config):
             saml2_config.get("saml_session_lifetime", "5m")
         )
 
+        if "error_html_path" in config:
+            self.saml2_error_html_content = self.read_file(
+                config["error_html_path"], "saml2_config.error_html_path",
+            )
+        else:
+            self.saml2_error_html_content = SAML2_ERROR_DEFAULT_HTML
+
     def _default_saml_config_dict(
         self, required_attributes: set, optional_attributes: set
     ):
@@ -325,6 +344,13 @@ class SAML2Config(Config):
           # The default is 'uid'.
           #
           #grandfathered_mxid_source_attribute: upn
+          
+          # Path to a file containing HTML content to serve in case an error happens
+          # when the user gets redirected from the SAML IdP back to Synapse.
+          # If no file is provided, this defaults to some minimalistic HTML telling the
+          # user that something went wrong and they should try authenticating again.
+          #
+          #error_html_path: /path/to/static/content/saml_error.html
         """ % {
             "config_dir_path": config_dir_path
         }