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The underlying cause of any looping scenario is a mismatch between the properties of the session cookie created by an Assertion Consumer Service and the URL(s) of the resources the session is supposed to secure.

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Before Debugging

To understand the cause of looping, you need to know a little about cookies, which you can learn about all over the web, but in a nutshell, the cookie issued by the SP is bound to the exact domain name the client sees when it accesses the ACS, and this must match the domain name the client sees when it accesses the resource. In addition, some configurations may add the "secure" property that limits cookies to SSL access only, in which case the resource must also be SSL protected.

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