[jira] [Created] (SLING-2706) SlingHttpServletRequest.getScheme() should support offloaded SSL

["Jörg Hoh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jörg Hoh created SLING-2706:
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             Summary: SlingHttpServletRequest.getScheme() should support offloaded SSL
                 Key: SLING-2706
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-2706
             Project: Sling
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Engine
            Reporter: Jörg Hoh


Currently SlingHttpServletRequest.getScheme() only supports "https", if the HTTPS connection is terminated locally. But in many environments the https connection is terminated at a frontend layer (either loadbalancer or webserver), and then the requests are forwarded via http to sling (plus a special header indicating that this request was once received via https). Then .getScheme() won't return "https" anymore, but only "http".

I would like to extend the SlingHttpServletRequestImpl and implement a .getScheme(), which considers a configurable HTTP header (e.g. "X-frontend-ssl") of the request. If this value is set, then .getScheme() will return "https". 

I want to make this header name configurable via OSGI, but I haven't found any good place yet. Any ideas?





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