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1. Re: https
smeaggie Feb 19, 2007 10:49 AM (in response to ashwin1984)you can use a <security-constraint> tag in your web.xml to enforce https connections:
-- snip -- <security-constraint> <display-name>manager_access</display-name> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>manager_pages</web-resource-name> <description/> <url-pattern>/secure/*</url-pattern> <http-method>GET</http-method> <http-method>POST</http-method> <http-method>HEAD</http-method> <http-method>PUT</http-method> <http-method>OPTIONS</http-method> <http-method>TRACE</http-method> <http-method>DELETE</http-method> </web-resource-collection> <auth-constraint> <description/> <role-name>manager</role-name> </auth-constraint> <user-data-constraint> <description/> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint> -- snip --
the <user-data-constraint> here does the trick with <transport-guarantee> set to CONFIDENTIAL. It'll try to switch to https automaticly now when accessing anything behind /secure on the server. Note this example required the user to have the "manager" role and this requires some more configuration (login config etc).