Too Many Redirects

[billmanhillman]

Proxy Pass is causing to many redirects when web.xml is upshifting to SSL
via security-constraint. It seems like tomcat doesn't like receiving
proxy_pass with http://localhost:8080 and tries to convert to SSL again.
What gives? Configs follow...

Nginx 1.2.6 Config:

server {
        listen www.mydomain.com:80;
        listen www.mydomain.com:443 ssl;

        ssl_certificate my.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key my.key;
        ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
        location / {
                proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        }

        location /images {
                root /var/www;
        }
}

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Web.xml

    <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Billing</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/billing/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Shipping</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/shipping/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Register</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/subscription/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Contact</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/contactus.url</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <user-data-constraint>
            <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
        </user-data-constraint>
    </security-constraint>

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Tomcat Server.xml

    <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               URIEncoding="UTF-8"
                redirectPort="443" <!-- This tell tomcat what port to use
when security-constraint is provided in web.xml -->
                proxyName="www.mydomain.com"
                proxyPort="80"/>


Please help.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,235822,235822#msg-235822