Friday, January 27, 2006

Having both HTTP and HTTPS in a web-application

Web applications often need to have both http and https access; i.e. some URIs in the web application need to have HTTPS access and some can do with HTTP.

Hard-coding the URL address with https whereever required is not an elegant solution as this has to be reflected in all the links in all pages. An alternative soln will be to do a Response.redirect from the page with https in the URL. More detailed info is available at :
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2002/jw-0215-ssl.html

Also Struts has a extension through which we can specify which URLs need HTTPS access. For more info check out:
http://struts.apache.org/struts-taglib/ssl.html
http://sslext.sourceforge.net/

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