> why aren't you > switching to https before it gets complicated, i.e. when a simple request > is coming in, like for the form page itself?
Unfortunately, that is not an option. > - is the Location header apache httpd sends back for the > redirect still > OK? You can check with a commandline client like e.g. curl. > No, here's where the trouble starts. It seems like mod_rewrite can't handle UTF-8 URLs. I used the LiveHTTPHeaders plugin for Firefox, and here's the output: Original (correct request): GET /lucene/target.jsp?test=%C3%BCberraschung HTTP/1.1 Flawed redirect: Location: http://localhost:778/lucene/target.jsp?test=%25C3%25BCberraschung As you can see, the % have been encoded again. What can I do about it? Regards, Michael > - if so, is the second request as decoded by apache OK? The > access log > might give an idea about that > > - if so, is the forwarded request from mod_jk to Tomcat OK > (JkLogLevel > debug shows a line ...service... which containes the forwarded URL at > the end) > > Regards, > > Rainer > > Michael Böckling wrote: > > Ok, that makes it clear to me. > > Thanks for the exhaustive reply! > > > > Btw., I didn't configure the servers, I'm just trying to > get my forms data through and understand as much as possible. :-) > > > > So I switched to GET, but again, I ran into issues, this > time it is character-encoding related. > > The Tomcats all have URIEncoding="UTF-8" set, and it works > whithout the rewrite-induced redirect. > > > > But when redirect is used, the following happens: > > > > The parameter "führung" becomes "f%C3%BChrung" in my JSPs. > I did "AddDefaultEncoding UTF-8" in my Apache config, that > doesn't help. Is there a configuration option for mod_rewrite > or mod_jk that I have to set to make it work? I tried the > "ForwardURIxxx" options on my mod_jk, but they didn't help. Any Ideas? > > > > Thanks a lot for the help so far! > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Rainer Jung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:35 PM > >> To: Tomcat Users List > >> Subject: Re: POST data lost when switching URL using > mod_rewrite and > >> mod_jk > >> > >> > >> Example from > >> > >> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html > >> > >> 10.3.2 301 Moved Permanently > >> > >> The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent > URI and any > >> future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the > >> returned URIs. > >> Clients with link editing capabilities ought to > automatically re-link > >> references to the Request-URI to one or more of the new references > >> returned by the server, where possible. This response is cacheable > >> unless indicated otherwise. > >> > >> The new permanent URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the > >> response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of > >> the response > >> SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the > >> new URI(s). > >> > >> If the 301 status code is received in response to a request > >> other than > >> GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect > >> the request > >> unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might > change the > >> conditions under which the request was issued. > >> > >> Note: When automatically redirecting a POST request after > >> receiving a 301 status code, some existing HTTP/1.0 > user agents > >> will erroneously change it into a GET request. > >> > >> So if you are using HTTp Redirect, check your Apache > access log. It's > >> likely you will notice, that the browser switched from a POST > >> to a GET > >> during the redirect and the POST Body isn't send by the > >> Browser. Nothing > >> we could do in this case on the server side. > >> > >> You should try to identify a GET which sits before the > POST in your > >> clickstream and do the redirect already there (like e.g. when the > >> browser tries to retrieve the empty form before it tries > to send the > >> contents). > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Rainer > >> > >> Michael Böckling wrote: > >>> Hi folks! > >>> > >>> I Have the following setup: > >>> > >>> Apache/2.2.4 > >>> mod_ssl/2.2.4 > >>> mod_jk/1.2.25 > >>> mod_rewrite (?) > >>> Apache Tomcat 5.5.23 > >>> > >>> Browser ==> Apache + mod_rewrite ==> mod_jk ==> Tomcat > >>> > >>> > >>> This is a Linux machine, and mod_rewrite is used to switch > >> to SSL on certain URLs. > >>> Problem: the POST data is lost whenever a form on a http > >> page sends data to a page that gets its URL rewritten to https. > >>> This goes as folllows: > >>> > >>> http page => form post to http url => rewrite url to https, > >> switch to SSL => display https url > >>> No data arrives when using POST! > >>> I know there is a bug that limits the maximum post size to > >> x KB, but in my case, the post data is a just a few text fields. > >>> Any idea as to why this happens? > >>> > >>> Regards, > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
