[opencms-dev] how to access url displayed in browser's address bar

[Arian Abrahantes Quintana]

Hi andras and shi,
 
I make a mistake when I started this talk and shi got it. that's why you may also be right but I'm proxing in a different way, cause I have apache proxing for Tomcat as well.
 
Apache -> Tomcat -> opencms 5.0
 
Yes i am still stick to old opencms version, it is a long story.
 
So, the original request is made to apache. It internally rewrite the address and passed to Tomcat. By some means I need the original request to apache (the one in the address bar) which I have found one may fake and end up in other place of the server or change connection protocol without previous notice.
 
An example might be the following: some request is made through https to apache it proxies it to opencms without changing the scheme, but this internal comunication is made throuhg http. I have configured the system that way since opencms 5 has some problems with https scheme.
 
Browser-request---https--->Apache---http--->Opencms
 
Any request at opencms level is allways made over http scheme. Thus, Opencms is inherently blind to the first scheme. Such mechanism is  bit weak cause some source restricted to https can also be retrieved by http scheme. There enters the need to check the address in the bar, there I can check that the https mechanism is observed otherwise I force it. 
 
I hope this information is complete. I'll look on mod_jk for apache as well. hope to find a solution soon,
 
best regards,
 
arian
 
 

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From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org on behalf of Andras Balogh
Sent: Tue 9/5/2006 1:51 PM
To: The OpenCms mailing list
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] how to access url displayed in browser's address bar



Sorry I don't see what is the issue with proxying, if tomcat is
configured correctly to be "proxy-aware"
the URL can be built correctly, see:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/proxy-howto.html

Best regards,
Andras

Arian Abrahantes Quintana wrote:
> hi andras and joe:
> 
> I know we can do better ;-). Indeed I tried first, later wrote to the list. I didn't mean to boder you guys. but build it myself is not the solution. I need to catch exactly what's in the address bar. Joe wrote clearly the point of why is not working and that was what I tried to explain (reverse proxies and that stuff). If nothing come out I'll try to export the javascript variable to jsp. Is this posible?.
> 
> thxs a lot,
> 
> arian
>  


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