[JS2-204] PLT.7.1.2 Portlet URL securit y not implemented and absolute URL rendering

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-dev/cvs
• Fix Version/s: 2.1-dev, 2.1
• Component/s: Container, ContentServer, Profiling/Portal Navigation
• Assignee: Ate Douma
• Reporter: Ate Douma
• Created: 31/Jan/05 21:33
• Updated: 04/Oct/11 21:37
• Resolved: 20/Feb/07 20:32

Description

PLT.7.1.2 PortletURL security
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The PortalURL doesn't yet honor a request for the explicit generation of secure or non-secure PortletURLs as required by the Portlet Specification.

Whatever the setting, a non-secure url is always generated.

I will implement this requirement using the same solution as provided by Jeremy Boyes for the Pluto PortalDriver.
See: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO-82.

This solution will use two different Servlet Mappings in web.xml for the JetspeedServlet: a non-secure (what we have now already: /portal/) and a secure (/secure/portal/).
For the secure mapping a security-constraint with transport-garantee CONFIDENTIAL will be defined, effectively securing any access through this mapping.

These mappings are, and also need be, defined in WEB-INF/conf/jetspeed.properties too.
The AbstractPortalURL will read these properties to determine which path to use for secure and non-secure PortletURLs.

Note, these paths will only be used when a secure url must be generated while the current request is not, or visa versa.
This means, other mappings can still be used (we have also a /jetspeed/* mapping defined although I don't know why or if it is needed anymore) as long as there isn't a switch from secure to non-secure or visa versa.

Absolute URL Rendering
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Another problem the above solution will partly solve is the current absolute URL rendering (including the Scheme, ServerName and Portnummer in an URL) which poses problems with Proxy configurations as has been recently been reported on the list by Scott Heaberlin.
By using different mappings for the secure and non-secure access we don't need to prefix the urls with a HTTP:// or HTTPS:// scheme anymore.

I will also remove the Scheme, Servername and Portnummer encoding in url generation as currently is done by the JetspeedPowerTool, JetspeedVelocityViewServlet and the ContentLocatingRequestWrapper of the ContentServer.

Issue Links

• relates to: JS2-275 Option to make Action URLs relative or absolute