Re: https -- http session problem

2003-11-18 Thread Henrik Bentel
. Not the best solution, but with deadline looming it did the job. Later, when switching with Struts, this ported nicely(if you can call it that) by extending sslext. In the end I wish this was covered by the servlet spec. Does anybody know how other containers behave(Jetty, Resin, etc)? -Henrik

better configuration for Apache and Tomcat?

2003-08-11 Thread Henrik Bentel
this in mod_ssl user group, but if anybody here konws a lot easier) 3. more of a question: should I configure 2 coyote connectors, one for http and one for https in tomcat? Even when apache is doing all the certificate management? hope someone can help Henrik Bentel

Re: problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https

2002-10-19 Thread Henrik Bentel
the security point of view, this is worse than useless (worse because it gives you a false sense of confidence). Craig Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Henrik Bentel wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:07:17 + From: Henrik Bentel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users

Re: problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https

2002-10-18 Thread Henrik Bentel
. From: Henrik Bentel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 04:45:21 + ok, I see your point. My approach is that I only use https to scramble

Re: problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https

2002-10-18 Thread Henrik Bentel
tracking and redirection http--- https Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:13:40 -0700 is the request method changing in redirection, for example post to get ?? if it is, use HttpServletResponse.encodeURL() Henrik Bentel wrote: Another weird behaviour I just discovered is the following: If a httpsession

problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https

2002-10-16 Thread Henrik Bentel
Help! I recently tried to upgrade my version of Tomcat from 3.3 to 4.1(I also tried 4.0). My problem is that for some reason the httpsession is lost after redirection from https to http. I run apache in front of tomcat to handle static content plus certificate. My webapp depend on the ability

Re: problem with session tracking and redirection http--- https

2002-10-16 Thread Henrik Bentel
ok, I see your point. My approach is that I only use https to scramble the login request itself, so that a login password cannot be read,or sniffed, in clear text(it probably still can, if someone really, really tries). Nothing critical is stored in the http session itself. A lot of websites