It's doing something with Single Logout. Turn it off / block it, or something:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Integration-Documents/Configuring-CAS-and-Canvas-Authentication/ta-p/387390

Look at the end for "User is randomly logged out of Canvas"

On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 12:41 -0800, Mike Osterman wrote:
Hi Bill,

I was dealing with people getting logged out Canvas frequently, and ended up 
changing a couple config properties. I had our CSM team set the Canvas-side 
timeout really high, but it didn't work. There's something unusual about the 
way the Canvas application interacts with CAS protocol. I had checked for 
callbacks from the Instructure servers, but it really does seem to be managing 
the session after the initial SSO flow. By the way, do you use a Discovery URL? 
That's when our session behavior seemed to change, but it may just be 
correlation rather than causation.

I eventually set two properties and got it to behave as expected, but never 
figured out which one did the trick:

cas.ticket.tgt.timeout.maxTimeToLiveInSeconds: 
https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configuration-Properties.html#timeout
AND
server.session.timeout: 
https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configuration-Properties.html#web-application-session

It sounds like you've found that it was the first one, so I wanted to 
corroborate that for you.

I just ended up setting these properties server-wide in cas.properties, which 
isn't ideal, because you have a single service dictating timeout behavior for 
all services using CAS.

I've also considered switching over to using CAS's SAML2 IdP functionality for 
Canvas, but need to wait for an appropriate time to make that change.

Finally, so as not to hijack the thread and keep the proxy ticket service 
configuration comment from Ray alive, I think this is how the service would be 
configured for it:
https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configuring-Service-Proxy-Policy.html

I did look for server-side traffic from Canvas as Ray suggested, but didn't 
find any as mentioned above. I just checked for an iFrame, which would be 
client-side traffic, but didn't see anything in the Network tab of developer 
tools.

-Mike



On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:01 PM Bill Scully 
<fwscu...@gmail.com<mailto:fwscu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Ray,

Another possibility, Canvas is using is a proxy ticket.
Does your service definition allow proxying?


I would say, no.  It's pretty straightforward:
{
  "@class" : "org.apereo.cas.services.RegexRegisteredService",
  "serviceId" : "^https://[omitted]/.*";,
  "name" : "Canvas",
  "id" : [omitted],
  "evaluationOrder" : [omitted]
}

I looked at what I think covers proxy ticketing 
(https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.2.x/installation/Configuring-Ticket-Expiration-Policy.html#proxy-ticket-policies),
 but didn't see how to configure.

Any example I could try?

Thanks.

Bill

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