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Cédric,

On 9/30/13 10:06 AM, Cédric Couralet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2013/9/30 André Warnier <[email protected]>:
>> Hi.
>> 
> [...]
>> The question is now : why does that application require HTTPS ? 
>> An application usually doesn't care how it is accessed, except if
>> some configuration of the application requires it to get some
>> information from the SSL protocol (like a user certificate or
>> so).  What does this application need ?
>> 
>> 
> 
> I don't agree, the application should know how it is accessed, if
> only because some pages may require SSL (all page under an
> auth-constraint) and others not, and it should not be delegated to
> apache but required at the tomcat level. I really think that saying
> to an application  "do not care about SSL it is our problem"  will
> lead to all sort of security incomprehension in the future. 
> Espcially when it is as easy as adding a valve in server.xml to do
> so (as said by Daniel Mikusa), or if it is an option, configuring
> AJP between tomcat and httpd, which then requires nothing on the
> tomcat side.

Some solutions require nothing on the Tomcat site (hint: mod_jk does
all this auto-magically).

- -chris
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