Heh :)
It's certainly being considered.

Although moving all of our (many) applications to a different proxy or 
configuring them all to use a different URL for CAS will be quite a 
hassle.  I guess I'm hoping that there's some cas.config or some other 
setting I'm missing.

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 2:56:58 PM UTC-4, Uxío Prego wrote:
>
> I can't tell why, but I've known of ancient CAS deployments where the CAS 
> application sits behind the proxy configured at its very *own* third 
> level domain, where CAS is the only accessible application... or meaningful 
> application... depending on the existing applications ecosystem's 
> structure.
>
> In other words; if you can not fix it in time, roll forward that way 
> without fixing anything.
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> 2018-04-03 18:40 GMT+00:00 Cliff Ingham <[email protected] <javascript:>>:
>
>> Is there something I'm missing when setting CAS up behind a reverse 
>> proxy?  CAS is rewriting the hostnames of the service URLs when doing the 
>> redirection.
>>
>> When both CAS and a web application using CAS authentication are behind 
>> the same reverse proxy, then CAS rewrites the service URL when redirecting 
>> back to the web application during authentication.
>>
>> CAS authentication works successfully when not behind any reverse proxy.  
>> Also, it works successfully, in CAS and the web application are behind two 
>> different reverse proxies.  It's only if they're both behind the same 
>> reverse proxy that it does not work as expected.
>>
>>
>> Example
>>
>> CAS             at https://cas.host.org/cas
>> Web Application at https://app.host.org/app
>>
>> Authentication works as expected when visting https://app.host.org/app.  
>> The app redirects to CAS at https://cas.host.org/cas and cas redirects 
>> back as expected.
>>
>> Drop CAS behind a reverse proxy at https://proxy.host.org/cas.  
>> Authentication still works as expected when visiting 
>> https://app.host.org/app and doing the auth through 
>> https://proxy.host.org
>>
>> You can even drop the App behind a different proxy and it will work as 
>> expected.
>> Visit https://proxy-two.host.org/app and do auth through either 
>> https://proxy.host.org/cas or https://cas.host.org/cas and it works as 
>> expected.
>>
>> However
>>
>> If you reverse proxy the app and CAS behind the same host, then CAS will 
>> always rewrite the service URL for the app during the redirection step.  It 
>> rewrites the service URL to the reverse proxy hostname, even if you came 
>> from the original hostname for the app.
>>
>> Set up a reverse proxy at https://proxy.host.org/app
>>
>> But when you still visit https://app.host.org/app (This not accessing it 
>> through the reverse proxy, even though the reverse proxy is still 
>> configured).  Do auth through https://proxy.host.org/cas and when CAS 
>> sends the 302 redirect header, it sends https://proxy.host.org/app, 
>> instead of https://app.host.org/app as expected.
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