On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote:

> +1. What is the challenge in achieving this? Basically I don't understand
> the problem!



I think the issue is request on the HTTP port to the /carbon sub-context
blindly being redirected to HTTPS.


>
> Also, I remember a discussion a long time ago about how products like GS
> and BAM were different because they have a "user" view that must be exposed
> all the time. The product console is only of interest for admins.
>
> Its fine for the admin console to require HTTPS access but totally not fine
> for the user view to require HTTPS. We used to have an anonymous mode for
> the user view too IIRC - does does that work??
>
> Sanjiva.
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Nuwan Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> $Subject is a critical requirement for the Gadget Server. Still we don't
>> have a proper mechanism of providing the UI in HTTP mode. For any other
>> server product this feature might not be a high priority requirement, but
>> for a presentation product like GS, users are willing to have an HTTP mode
>> as well (option to switch between HTTP and HTTPS). However IMO we should
>> keep our BE to FE communication in HTTPS and like to come up with a
>> mechanisms to provide Client to FE communication via HTTP.
>>
>> GS team would like to work on this feature, with the help of
>> security/carbon-core team, and would like to make this available in our next
>> major relase.
>>
>> Suggestion and comments welcome.
>>
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