Switching Http/Https in ADF

Question

Hi
my need is like i have one page in my application in HTTPS and all other pages are in HTTP.
how can i switch the control from Http/Https. i m developing application in ADF11g.
Regards
Kiran Sankpal

Answer 1

Hi,
ou will need to setup a phase listener that checks the pages you request. If the viewId is the one you want to execute in https, you perform a redirect. I did something similar for JSF 1.0.1 (JDeveloper 10.1.3). Here's the code to switch the protocol
public void handleProtocolSwitch(String viewId, boolean pageRequiresSSL)
    ExternalContext exctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
    boolean isSecureSSLChannel = ((HttpServletRequest)exctx.getRequest()).isSecure();
    // pages that require SSL and SSL is on, or pages that don't require
    // SSL but SSL is on and should be kept
    if (pageRequiresSSL && isSecureSSLChannel || !pageRequiresSSL && isSecureSSLChannel && isKeepSSLMode) {
    printDebugMessage("Page requires SSL = "+pageRequiresSSL+", channel is secure = "+isSecureSSLChannel+", is keep SSL = "+isKeepSSLMode);
    printDebugMessage("No protocol change required");
    // page requires SSL and SSL is not active. Switch to SSL.
    if (pageRequiresSSL && !isSecureSSLChannel) {
      printDebugMessage("Page requires SSL = "+pageRequiresSSL+", channel is secure = "+isSecureSSLChannel);
      printDebugMessage("Protocol change required to use https");
      switchToHttps(viewId);
    // switch to HTTP is page doesn't require SSL and channel isn't secure
    // and isKeepSSLMode is false
    if (!pageRequiresSSL && !isKeepSSLMode && isSecureSSLChannel) {
      printDebugMessage("Page requires SSL = "+pageRequiresSSL+", channel is secure = "+isSecureSSLChannel+", is keep SSL = "+isKeepSSLMode);
      printDebugMessage("Protocol change required to use http");
      switchToHttp(viewId);
    if (!pageRequiresSSL && !isSecureSSLChannel) {
      printDebugMessage("Page requires SSL = "+pageRequiresSSL+", channel is secure = "+isSecureSSLChannel);
      printDebugMessage("No protocol change required");
  * Switches from https to http using a redirect call
  * @param viewId
  private void switchToHttp(String viewId) {
      FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
      ExternalContext exctx = facesContext.getExternalContext();
      ViewHandler vh = facesContext.getApplication().getViewHandler();
      String pageURI = vh.getActionURL(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), viewId);
      //redirect to http URL
      String remoteHost = getHostNameFromRequest();
      printDebugMessage("Switch to http on host "+ remoteHost);
      try {
          String port = httpPort.equalsIgnoreCase("80") ? "" : ":" + httpPort;
          String url = "http://" + remoteHost + port + pageURI;
          printDebugMessage("Redirecting to http URL "+ url); 
          //TODO check request Map
           this.printDebugMessage(" Content size of RequestMap before redirect "+exctx.getRequestMap().size());
          exctx.redirect(url);         
      } catch (IOException e) {
          printDebugMessage("Redirect to http port failed "+ e.getMessage());
  * switches to https using a redirect call
  * @param viewId
  private void switchToHttps(String viewId) {
      FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
      ExternalContext exctx = facesContext.getExternalContext();
      ViewHandler vh = facesContext.getApplication().getViewHandler();
      String pageURI = vh.getActionURL(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(), viewId);
      //redirect to https URL
      String remoteHost = getHostNameFromRequest();
      printDebugMessage("Switch to SLL/https on host "+ remoteHost);
      try {
          String port = httpsPort.equalsIgnoreCase("443") ? "" : ":" + httpsPort;
          String url = "https://" + remoteHost + port + pageURI;
          printDebugMessage("Redirecting to https URL "+ url);       
          //TODO check request Map
          this.printDebugMessage(" Content of RequestMap before redirect "+exctx.getRequestMap().size());
          exctx.redirect(url);         
      } catch (Exception e) {
          printDebugMessage("Redirect to http port failed "+ e.getMessage());
  }Note that you need to make sure the session is kept when switching protocols, which usually is a setting on the Java EE container
Frank