This is a known problem with MSIE. See http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13861 for more details.
"Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tomcat 4.0.6 > Windows 2000 > IE 5, SP3 > Netscape 7.02 > > > I have a website which is part public, part secure. There are html entries > such as "< a href=members/index.jsp >" in the public area which will > jump to the secure area. The site is entered, by default using > http://localhost:8080 but the members area is protected via SSL and > transport guarantee stanzas > <security-constraint> > <web-resource-collection> > <web-resource-name>ScoutGroup-Secure</web-resource-name> > <url-pattern>/members/*</url-pattern> > </web-resource-collection> > <auth-constraint> > <role-name>member</role-name> > </auth-constraint> > <user-data-constraint> > <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> > </user-data-constraint> > </security-constraint> > > I understand that this should force any > http://localhost:8080/scoutgroup/members request to switch to > https://localhost:8443/scoutgroup/members. Under Netscape it does and I am > notified that I am going to a secure page, prompted to accept the SSL > certificate then driven through my logon.jsp to > response.encodeURL("j_security_check"). Under IE, however, I am notified > that I am going to a secure page, prompted to accept the SSL certificate > then told the page cannot be found. > > For testing purposes, I tried putting > http://localhost:8080/scoutgroup/members in the browser's address box. > > The access log contains the following (with my annotations prefixed with > ////) > //// Using IE > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:09:28 10000] "GET > /scoutgroup/members/index.jsp HTTP/1.1" 302 654 > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:09:30 10000] "GET > /scoutgroup/members/index.jsp HTTP/1.1" 302 654 > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:09:30 10000] " a ] ?4? > Yq8*+??R?I?T:?<?"[EMAIL PROTECTED] /?4? HTTP/0.9" 501 988 > > //// Using Netscape > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:59:48 10000] "GET > /scoutgroup/members/index.jsp HTTP/1.1" 302 654 > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:59:50 10000] "GET > /scoutgroup/members/index.jsp HTTP/1.1" 302 654 > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:15:59:50 10000] "GET /scoutgroup/logon.jsp > HTTP/1.1" 200 576 > 127.0.0.1 - - [09/Aug/2003:16:01:07 10000] "POST > /scoutgroup/j_security_check HTTP/1.1" 302 654 > 127.0.0.1 - nichm001 [09/Aug/2003:16:01:07 10000] "GET > /scoutgroup/members/index.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 427 > > > > Both browsers caused the same response (SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY/302) as they > attempted to navigate to the security check but then IE generated something > very peculiar and appeared to try to renegotiate the protocol to http/0.9 > before giving up. > > > I've checked the logs - can't find anything more informative than above. > > I've tried running Tomcat via the "catalina run" command line option but > there is no extra info there either. > > I know I can modify my code to always force the full path into hyperlinks > but that's not good programming and has enormous potential for maintenance > problems. > > Where do I look now? > > > Murray --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
