Hi, Someone else already explained it well. It's not impossible, you can do it with a bit of coding. But the container can't do that bit of coding for you as it's a security risk.
Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Paulo Alvim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:13 PM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: RES: [java] RE: http->https url rewrite bug TC 5.0.28? > >Hi Yoav, > >I have a similar problem: I'd like to use https only with the login.jsp >page >and come back to http after that. Could you explain why it isn't possible? > >-----Mensagem original----- >De: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Enviada em: segunda-feira, 15 de novembro de 2004 12:24 >Para: Tomcat Users List >Assunto: [java] RE: http->https url rewrite bug TC 5.0.28? > > > >Hi, >Not a bug. You can't share a session that way, whether using cookies or >URL-rewriting. > >Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: John Sidney-Woollett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:21 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: http->https url rewrite bug TC 5.0.28? >> >>I'm not sure if this is a bug or a misunderstaning on my part - and >I've >>been searching the archives and googling for most of the day without >>success... >> >>I've got a problem where URL rewriting is failing to correctly encode >>the URL when switching from an insecure (non-ssl) connection to a >secure >>ssl connection FOR THE SAME DOMAIN and where the session already exists >>for the insecure connection and COOKIES ARE DISABLED in the browser. I >>can reproduce this behaviour with different browsers. >> >>An "action" servlet receives the non-ssl request and redirects to >>another secure "action" servlet. The call for the redirect should >encode >>the URL as follows in the first servlet's service(request, response) >>method: >> >>[snip] >>if (gotoCheckout) >>{ >> //goto the checkout >> //this generates the URL >> //https://www.mytestsite.com/CheckoutAction?action=start >> String url = CheckoutAction.getCheckoutActionStartURL(request); >> >> //make sure the JSESSIONID is appended for non-cookie browsers >> url = response.encodeRedirectURL(url); >> >> response.sendRedirect(url); >> return; >>} >>[snip] >> >>Looking at the headers, you can see that the JSESSIONID is not appended >>to the redirect URL when the protocol switches from http to https: >> >>REQUEST >>======= >>POST >>http://www.mytestsite.com/BasketAction;jsessionid=9E490ADF8FB268E3F6BC 5 >FA2F >>D61E8CF >>HTTP/1.1 >>Host: www.mytestsite.com >>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) >>Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 >>Accept: >>text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/pl a >in;q >>=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1 >>Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 >>Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate >>Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 >>Keep-Alive: 300 >>Proxy-Connection: keep-alive >>Referer: >>http://www.mytestsite.com/basket;jsessionid=9E490ADF8FB268E3F6BC5FA2FD 6 >1E8C >>F >>Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >>Content-Length: 66 >>ret=%2Fimage%2F6503740500223&action=upd&butaction=checkout&qty_0=1 >> >>RESPONSE >>======== >>HTTP/1.x 302 Moved Temporarily >>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:38:23 GMT >>Server: Apache/1.3.29 >>Location: https://www.mytestsite.com/CheckoutAction?action=start >>Content-Length: 0 >>Content-Type: text/plain >>Connection: close >> >> >>Setup >> >>Apache 1.3.29 + mod_ssl + mod_jk + tomcat 5.0.28 (unix) >> >>Apache is configured with two virtual directives; one for port 80 and >>one for post 443 and the requests are forwarded by mod_jk to tomcat >>which has the following in its server.xml config: >> >>[snip] >><Host name="www.mytestsite.com" appBase="/ef02/tc/www.mytestsite.com"> >> <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0" reloadable="false"> >> <ResourceLink name="jdbc/D1DB" global="jdbc/D1DB" >>type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> >> </Context> >></Host> >>[snip] >> >>Tomcat possibly nevers "sees" that the request is secure because the >SSL >>part of the transaction is handled by mod_SSL, and I don't know if this >>has a bearing on the issue? >> >>My question, should the JSESSIONID be appended in the encoded redirect >- >>I think so? >> >>And if it should, am I doing something wrong. Or is there a bug? >> >>If there is a bug, should I manually append the ";jsessionid=xxxxxxx" >to >>the URL to workaround the problem. >> >>Can anyone shed any light on this? >> >>Many thanks >> >>John Sidney-Woollett >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business >communication, and may contain information that is confidential, >proprietary >and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to >whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or >used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please >immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the >sender. 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