Portal forums offline get together in Walldorf

Question

I am in Walldorf at the moment attending some training and am keen to get together with any portal forum members. How about meeting in Walldorf on Wednesday evening (13th December)? Please reply sugegsting a specific time and/or place?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Dagfinn,
Thanks for your reply.
Indeed, https is terminated on web dispatcher. But before reaching web dispatcher it passes an application firewall where https termination (and encryption again before sending to web dispatcher) takes place as well.
After your message, I started investigating. The slow response times only occur when clicking the reply-link and only when using https from outside our company. If I use https inside the company, then there is no problem.
When I click the reply-link the browser comes with a pop-up saying that the page "contains both secure and non-secure items".  Apparently this is about the tabs in the message editor (Plain Text, Preview, Rich Text) and the panes (Plain Text Help) that appear when you are in Plain Text tab.
These items appear when using https inside the company. They do not appear when using https outside the company, not even if you allow your browser to display both secure and non-secure items. In this case the browser also displays errors.
So I think that these items are blocked by the application firewall when you access the portal from outside the company and that the browser tries to get them until a time-out. This explains the delay we experience.
Kind Regards
edmond