Gregory Gerard schrieb:
Thanks! I'll give that a whirl. So you're saying that my marking it as scheme='https' HttpServletRequest.isSecure() will respond with true?

No, sorry, see my second post. The attribute scheme is used when a self-referencing redirect gets constructed. That's a way of producing a httpd redirect, although technically the reuqest is http.

secure should do what you want. Please post your connector configuration.

Good to know about the multiple IPs... Didn't know that was legal but makes sense.

Logging would be fine (though I don't know how the access log would handle it when parsed) but I'm more trying to get HttpServletRequest.getRemoteAddr()/getRemoteHost to return outer-most value (which I would make the assumption that it's the browser's address).

No idea about the getRemote*.
Others?

mod_jk corrsponds with the AJP connector, and this connector fakes those getRemote* from the info retrieved by mod_jk.

greg

Rainer Jung wrote:
Hi Gregory,

the descriptions below work (at least) for TC 5.0/5.5/6.0.

Gregory Gerard schrieb:
I've got an F5 load balancer running version 9.3 of the software.
I've got several Tomcat installations behind it.

The F5 does all SSL and clear traffic as a reverse proxy, rewriting headers as needed for cookies and whatnot.

I have one connector on 8080 for the clear traffic.

My problem: I tried to add another connector on 8081 setting secure to true so that the HttpServletRequest would say, yup, this is a secure connection and tell the 8080 connector 8081 is the secure address it should use when trying to upshift to higher security.

Don't use "secure", use scheme="https" instead. See

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html

When I did this and started Tomcat up, it whined about not being able to open up my keystore.

I want all my SSL to offloaded and keep the keys out of each machine and centrally managed. I *just* want to get the servlets to believe the connection is secure. This is analogous to HTTPd doing the SSL offload with the mod_jk connector.

Also, the header X-Forwarded-For is set by the F5 and I'd like the Connector to also give out this IP instead of the load balancer's.

I assume you are talking about the access log?

For common log format, but using the client IP, you take the pattern:

%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t "%r" %s %b

See:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html

Caution: X-Forwarded-For can contain multiple IP addresses, if the request passed through multiple proxies and they are configured to add IPs, not to overwrite. Keep this in mind when doing analysis on the field.


Any ideas short of recompiling Tomcat with a modified connector? Anyone else faced this problem?

There should be no need for code changes :)

thanks,
greg

Regards,

Rainer

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