Posted this to another list but haven't solved this problem yet... it
really bugs me that this is so poorly documented.
I have some Flex apps running that were running with a Coldfusion 7
backend using SSL. To do this, I merely modified the
services-config.xml to use https instead of http, and changed the
channel classes to the secure versions of those classes. All was
well.
Now that I've upgraded to Coldfusion 8, all my flex apps are sending
their gateway requests over https. This is normal, of course, because
I hadn't changed the config files yet.
So I looked at the config files and I see there is now a
services-config.xml and a remoting-config.xml. The
services-config.xml contains channel definitions for both ssl and
non-SSL (this is new)... the destinations are defined in
remoting-config.xml.
So I added a new destination called ColdFusionSSL - looks like this:
<destination id="ColdFusionSSL">
<channels>
<channel ref="my-cfamf-secure"/>
</channels>
<properties>
<source>*</source>
<!-- define the resolution rules and access level of the
cfc being invoked -->
<access>
<!-- Use the ColdFusion mappings to find CFCs, by
default only CFC files under your webroot can be found. -->
<use-mappings>false</use-mappings>
<!-- allow "public and remote" or just "remote"
methods to be invoked -->
<method-access-level>remote</method-access-level>
</access>
<property-case>
<!-- cfc property names -->
<force-cfc-lowercase>false</force-cfc-lowercase>
<!-- Query column names -->
<force-query-lowercase>false</force-query-lowercase>
<!-- struct keys -->
<force-struct-lowercase>false</force-struct-lowercase>
</property-case>
</properties>
</destination>
It's just a copy of the ColdFusion destination, except it refers to
the secure channel. The secure channel is defined in the
services-config.xml and was not changed. This is the default from
CF8...
<channel-definition id="my-cfamf-secure"
class="mx.messaging.channels.SecureAMFChannel">
<endpoint
uri="https://{server.name}:{server.port}{context.root}/flex2gateway/cfamfsecure";
class="flex.messaging.endpoints.SecureAMFEndpoint"/>
<properties>
<polling-enabled>false</polling-enabled>
<serialization>
<instantiate-types>false</instantiate-types>
</serialization>
</properties>
</channel-definition>
I changed the destination of my <mx:RemoteObject> tags to refer to
this new destination, compiled, and ran.
No luck. I get the following error message:
Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.Failed: HTTP: Failed:
url: 'https://advanceweb.ads.duke.edu/flex2gateway/cfamfsecure'
I set the logging level to "Debug" and the following log entries appeared:
[Flex] FlexSession created with id
'a430990913ea13bb4ad595c1936a7a554258TR' for an Http-based client
connection.
[Flex] Channel endpoint my-cfamf-secure received request.
[Flex] Deserializing AMF/HTTP request
Version: 3
(Message #0 targetURI=null, responseURI=/1)
(Array #0)
[0] = (Typed Object #0 'flex.messaging.messages.CommandMessage')
operation = 5
correlationId = ""
messageId = "987088B3-4172-5E89-C9BA-A5C58325ABE9"
body = (Object #1)
clientId = null
timeToLive = 0
headers = (Object #2)
DSId = "nil"
timestamp = 0
destination = ""
[Flex] Executed command: (default service)
commandMessage: Flex Message (flex.messaging.messages.CommandMessage)
operation = client_ping
clientId = D9B7365E-821B-0933-EB49-0778BC185020
correlationId =
destination =
messageId = 987088B3-4172-5E89-C9BA-A5C58325ABE9
timestamp = 1192487125922
timeToLive = 0
body = {}
hdr(DSId) = nil
hdr(DSEndpoint) = my-cfamf-secure
replyMessage: Flex Message (flex.messaging.messages.AcknowledgeMessage)
clientId = D9B7365E-821B-0933-EB49-0778BC185020
correlationId = 987088B3-4172-5E89-C9BA-A5C58325ABE9
destination = null
messageId = D9B7365E-822E-51FF-4E91-C20D589B541F
timestamp = 1192487125922
timeToLive = 0
body = null
hdr(DSId) = D9B7365E-820A-23DC-E6BB-A423E671BF99
[Flex] Serializing AMF/HTTP response
Version: 3
(Message #0 targetURI=/1/onResult, responseURI=)
(Typed Object #0 'flex.messaging.messages.AcknowledgeMessage')
timestamp = 1.192487125922E12
headers = (Object #1)
DSId = "D9B7365E-820A-23DC-E6BB-A423E671BF99"
body = null
correlationId = "987088B3-4172-5E89-C9BA-A5C58325ABE9"
messageId = "D9B7365E-822E-51FF-4E91-C20D589B541F"
timeToLive = 0.0
clientId = "D9B7365E-821B-0933-EB49-0778BC185020"
destination = null
Can anyone help me here? Why can't I get my flex apps to send the
gateway requests over https?
Thanks.
Rick Root
