URL redirect - how to switch from https to http

Question

Hi, all.
We have some requirement that the portal session be switched to https on some iviews while the rest of the contents are in http. I am thinking of using url redirect on the web dispatcher.
What I found is that the url redirect from http to https works great. Now if I want to switch back to http, the redirect doesn't work. Note that the http port is 80 and https port is 443 on the web dispatcher. To test, here is the parameter I did to switch from http to https. This works and transforms the url from http://ozonehomeep3.xxxxxxxxx/irj/portal/zsap_xxxxx to https://ozonehomeep3.xxxxxxxxx/irj/portal/zsap_xxxxxxxxxxxx
icm/HTTP/redirect_0 = PREFIX=/, FROM=/irj/portal/zsap_, FOR=ozonehomeep3, FROMPROT=http, PROT=https, HOST=ozonehomeep3.XXXXXX
If I flip it back the other way:
icm/HTTP/redirect_0 = PREFIX=/, FROM=/irj/portal/zsap_, FOR=ozonehomeep3, FROMPROT=https, PROT=http, HOST=ozonehomeep3.XXXXXX
When I connect using the url https://ozonehomeep3.xxxxxxxxx/irj/portal/zsap_xxxxxxxxxxxx, it ignores the parameter and the redirect to http did not happen.
What is wrong?
Thanks,
Jonathan.

Answer 1

Hello,
I've had a similar problem for one of my customers.
I've tried to do it on a root level, just Https://FQDN:port_https/ to http://FQDN:Port_http/
I've used this parameter to solve it:
icm/HTTP/redirect_0 = PREFIX=/, FOR=FQDN, FROMPROT=HTTPS, HOST=FQDN, PORT=80, PROT=http
maby you should try:
icm/HTTP/redirect_0 = PREFIX=/, FROM=/irj/portal/zsap_, FOR=FQDN, FROMPROT=HTTPS, HOST=FQDN, PORT=80, PROT=http, TO=/irj/portal/zsap_
You should also verify that the standard http port (80) are open in the firewall from the outside, just take a telnet session to FQDN and port 80
to quickly determined if the firewall policy are right.
Good luck!
Kind Regards
Håvard Fjukstad.