On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Jingchao Zhang <zh...@unl.edu> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks so much for your help! It is like you said a browser issue.
>
> I also noticed that the Galaxy main server (https://usegalaxy.org/)
> doesn't have this problem. And their USCS main table browser uses "https"
> instead of "http". Does anyone know why this isn't included in the current
> Galaxy release? And how can I change my current "http USCS main" to "https
> USCS main"?
>

Hi Jim,

We did this for usegalaxy.org simply by locally changing the URL in the
tool's config from http to https.  A proper fix for this tool (and other
external sites which open in the center iframe) is in the works and will be
released to the stable branch once it's done.

--nate


>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:51:03 +0000
> From: Peter Briggs <peter.bri...@manchester.ac.uk>
> To: galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] secure Galaxy with SSL
> Message-ID: <528b2677.9050...@manchester.ac.uk>
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>
> Hello Jim
>
> Re your problem #1 (UCSC browser appears to be blocked), I've seen
> something similar with our local Galaxy instance, which is also served
> via https.
>
> In our case I believe this is actually a browser issue: the latest
> version of Firefox silently blocks mixed secure and insecure content:
>
>
> https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2013/04/10/mixed-content-blocking-enabled-in-firefox-23/
>
> (I think Chrome and IE do something similar, although IE at least gives
> a warning.)
>
> The workaround is either to disable mixed content blocking (not trivial
> in Firefox, and probably not a good idea in general), or to do something
> like e.g. right-click "Open link in new tab" on the "Get data"/"UCSC
> main table browser" link in Galaxy.
> Once UCSC has loaded in the new tab it can be used to send data back to
> Galaxy without any problems.
>
> HTH
>
> Best wishes, Peter
>
> On 18/11/13 23:03, Jingchao Zhang wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Today I installed the SSL module for our local Galaxy instance and the
> > "https://"; link is working fine. I added this
> > "<Location"/">
> >
> >      RequestHeader  set X-URL-SCHEME https
> >
> > </Location>"
> > in our Apache configuration file as instructed in this webpage:
> > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Apache%20Proxy
> >
> > Here are my problems with SSL:
> > 1. Some build in links like "UCSC Main
> > <
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?GALAXY_URL=https%3A//hcc-galaxy.unl.edu/tool_runner&tool_id=ucsc_table_direct1&hgta_compressType=none&sendToGalaxy=1&hgta_outputType=bed>
> table
> > browser" and "UCSC Test
> > <
> http://genome-test.cse.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?GALAXY_URL=https%3A//hcc-galaxy.unl.edu/tool_runner&tool_id=ucsc_table_direct_test1&hgta_compressType=none&sendToGalaxy=1&hgta_outputType=bed>
> table
> > browser" become invalid. If I click on them, nothing will happen, as if
> > they are blocked.
> > 2. The old "http" link still works, which I think shouldn't because I
> > added the "RequestHeader ... https" line in Apache configuration. I
> > really want to disable the http link because the new users could be
> > easily led to the old one.
> >
> > Both httpd and Galaxy have been restarted after the changes are made.
> > Since I didn't find any similar threads in the mailist, I hope someone
> > here can help me out with this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> >
> >
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