Parsing error during login to corporate PCF environment

[jeblackburn]

Hello,

I'm having trouble logging in to an on-prem PCF environment using SSO. I've tested using an identical version of the CLI as a colleague who is not having the trouble, but using the slightly older version (6.48) didn't change any behavior.

The core issue is that I'm receiving an error, json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field InfoLinks.links.uaa of type ccv3.APILink in response to my login --sso request.

cf-cli: version 6.51.0+2acd15650.2020-04-07

Potentially Useful Details:

• I can log in to my public PWS account/org/space using a password.

• There is a corporate proxy in place - not sure if anything besides setting HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY are required to make the magic happen?

• Login with --sso reports an SSL Certificate problem, which is spurious. This error is NOT reported on any of my colleagues' machines.
  > cf login -a <https-url> --sso
> Invalid SSL Cert for <https-url> TIP: Use 'cf login --skip-ssl-validation' to continue with an insecure API endpoint

• Login with the skip-ssl-validation returns the following:
  > cf login -a https://login.system.pcfpre-ewd.cloud.boeing.com --sso --skip-ssl-validation
> json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field InfoLinks.links.uaa of type ccv3.APILink

• setting CF_TRACE=true, I get the following output prior to the above error message (with the full URLs redacted):
  `RESPONSE: [2020-07-22T08:45:49-05:00]
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Cache-Control: no-store
  Content-Language: en-US
  Content-Length: 764
  Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
  Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:45:48 GMT
  Set-Cookie: X-Uaa-Csrf=68OdX8qO4cg6BY9zoabl1K; Max-Age=86400; Expires=Thu, 23-Jul-2020 13:45:49 GMT; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly
  Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Frame-Options: DENY
  X-Vcap-Request-Id: 6a443ed4-7666-4472-5c4a-2a9aac3d5321
  X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
  {

  "app": {
  "version": "73.4.24"
  },
  "commit_id": "a91c1a7",
  "entityID": "",
  "idpDefinitions": {
  "https://saml...": "https://login...?returnIDParam=idp&entityID=http://login...&idp=https://saml...&isPassive=true"
  },
  "links": {
  "login": "https://login...",
  "uaa": "https://uaa..."
  },
  "prompts": {
  "passcode": [
  "password",
  "Temporary Authentication Code ( Get one at https://login.../passcode )"
  ],
  "password": "[PRIVATE DATA HIDDEN]",
  "username": [
  "text",
  "Email"
  ]
  },
  "showLoginLinks": true,
  "timestamp": "2020-05-19T19:05:36+0000",
  "zone_name": "uaa"
  }`

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