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HTTPS and proxy

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Jurgen van Kreij
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Posted on 25/05/2012 16:22:14
Hello guys,

Our hosting provider handles the HTTPS requests by a proxy and sends it as HTTP to the webserver.
(It seems a standard configuration; Amazon AWS and EC2 do the same.)

The result is that DW uses a <base href"http://"> because it does not recognize that the client-browser requests HTTPS.
MS-IIS has only bindings on port 80.

This causes problems with the internal links on the page because they refer to HTTP instead of HTTPS. And the user gets warnings when surfing to the page.

- How can we force DW to use the correct <base href>
Or
- How can we change manual the <base href> ?

Thanks for your tips.
Jurgen

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 29/05/2012 10:53:18
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Hi Jurgen

You can make a notficiation subscriber and overrule the base href Dynamicweb adds. Below a subscriber that does exactly the same as DW does internally - change it so it returns https in the wanted situations.

using System.Web;

namespace Dynamicweb.Examples.CSharp.Notifications.Standard
{
	[Extensibility.Subscribe(Dynamicweb.Notifications.Standard.Page.Loaded)]
	public class PageLoadedObserver : Dynamicweb.Extensibility.NotificationSubscriber
	{
		public override void OnNotify(string notification, Dynamicweb.Extensibility.NotificationArgs args)
		{
			if (args == null)            
				return;

			Dynamicweb.Notifications.Standard.Page.LoadedArgs loadedArgs = (Dynamicweb.Notifications.Standard.Page.LoadedArgs)args;

			if (Dynamicweb.Frontend.SearchEngineFriendlyURLs.RedirectType != Dynamicweb.Frontend.SearchEngineFriendlyURLs.Type.None)
			{
				string host = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host;
				int port = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Port;
				string url = null;
				if (string.Compare(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Scheme, "https", true) == 0)
				{
					url = string.Format("https://{0}/", host);
				}
				else
				{
					if (port == 80 || Base.GetGs("/Globalsettings/System/http/DisableBaseHrefPort") == "True")
					{
						url = string.Format("http://{0}/", host);
					}
					else
					{
						url = string.Format("http://{0}:{1}/", host, port);
					}
				}
				
				loadedArgs.pageview.Meta.Add("basehref", url);
			}

			
		}
	}
}


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Jurgen van Kreij
Posted on 29/05/2012 12:38:17
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Hello Nicolai,

Thank you for your quick reply.
This should solve the issue.

Kind regards,
Jurgen

 

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