Problem with http/https interoperation

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 04:14:18PM +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote:

> Hello, all
> 
>     I have a web application, which use nginx as frontend reverse-proxy
> sever. It's configured to use https to interact with user agent. Several
> tomcats are used as backend application servers. The connection between
> nginx and tomcats is http. The network structure is illustrated as
> following:
> 
>     Browser -- https --> nginx --- http --> tomcat1
>                                             \-- http --> tomcat2
> 
>     The normal request works ok. Problem comes when my program  returns
> 302/Redirection to user agent. Since tomcat has no idea about https'
> environment, the location field in http response header is set as:
> "Location: http://redirect.url.com". After receiving that, the browser will
> launch subsequent requests through http.

[...]

>     I wonder if there is some ready-made module to manipulate the 302
> Location header, or any other better ways to workaround this problem.

http://nginx.org/r/proxy_redirect

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Maxim Dounin
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