HTTP and HTTPS

Question

We are running WLS 6.1 sp1. We are using HP SSL box that intercepts HTTPS on port
443 and then forwards the request onto the web server over HTTP using port 80.
The scenario is that the user connects to the webapp via an HTTPS request. The
user is not logged in so the web server redirects the user to Login.jsp to be
authenticated using action="j_security_check". Within the WLS WEB.XML for the
webapp the login page is defined as /jsp/Login.jsp. As all of this is running
within the context of the web server the response when it is passed back to the
client is http://webserver/jsp/Login.jsp and NOT https://webserver/jsp/Login.jsp.
If I try to define the login page within weblogic as https://webserver/jsp/Login.jsp
then the response passes the URL back as http://weberver/https://jsp/Login.jsp.
So the question is, is it possible to get the Web Server to pass back the defined
login page entry without having the server context pre-pended. All assistance
would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try,
<container-descriptor>
<redirect-with-absolute-url>false</redirect-with-absolute-url>
</container-descriptor>
in the weblogic.xml for your web app deployed on the cluster.