On Mon, 21 May 2001, Shiv Kumar wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is a problem Im facing with Apache + Mod_SSL (for HTTPS).
>
> Consider this scenario :
>
> |-|
> |-|
> +---------+ |-| +---------+
> | A | T | |-| | A | |
> | p | o | |-| | p | C |
> HTTPS | a | m | |-| HTTP | a | G |
> ------->| c | c |--|-|------>| c | I |
> | h | a | |-| | h | |
> | e | t | |-| | e | |
> +---------+ |-| +---------+
> |-|
> S1 |-| S2
> |-|
> Firewall
>
> When the servlet on S1 tries the following :
>
> URL url = new URL("http://S2/cgi-bin/mycgi.exe";);
> URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
> InputStream in = conn.getInputStream(); <==== FAILS HERE
>
[ ... ]
>
> This used to work before introducing SSL module on Apache running on S1
> (i.e. when it was HTTP everywhere).
>
> Any idea of whats going wrong? Thanks.
I can't really help you, I just wanted to compliment you on the
beautiful diagram :-).
(Oh, perhaps one thing to check, make sure it's not trying to use
https for that connection. Not sure why it would, but who knows. Is
it possible to check the firewall logs to see if there's any activity
on the 443 (or some other) port?)
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
