web.xml <transport-guarantee> not able to work in certain environment.

Question

I have added this transport-guarantee tag in the web.xml meaning that certain pages can only be accessed by https. But however this has an issue with environment that has web server and load balancer.

Apparently it does not redirect to the application with ssl port.

Seens like a firewall restriction.

Any advise anyone?

Answer 1

Which container are you using? I believe some containers do allow you to specify the "front end" (i.e., web server, load balancer etc) SSL port in configuration.

I've done this for WebLogic, but I'm not sure if this requirement is explicitly speced out in the Java EE specs, or if all containers support it.