[OFBIZ-9224] 16.11 ofbizUrl include host+port and break some reverse-proxy / docker setups

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Release Branch 16.11
• Fix Version/s: 16.11.02
• Assignee: Jacques Le Roux
• Reporter: Leonard Lin
• Created: 20/Feb/17 22:10
• Updated: 01/Mar/17 23:23
• Resolved: 01/Mar/17 23:23

Description

OFBiz 16.11 has changed how it generates urls in its templates.
It sometimes includes hostname+port.

This can be reproduced on the official ofbiz-demo site:

Go to http://ofbiz.apache.org/

• Open the Ofbiz 13.07 Demo (Management Apps)
• - it will auto-login for your, do a logout so that you can see the login-mask
• - look at the HTML code and look for the form-post url etc. You can see that none of the URLs include hostname:port. They are all "/url/path"

• Open the Ofbiz 16.11 Demo (Management Apps)
• - it will auto-login for your, do a logout so that you can see the login-mask
• - look at the HTML code and look for the form-post url etc.
• - the post-urls and login-links have format: https://hostname:port/url/path

The new 16.11 behaviour can cause problems in cluster / reverse-proxy setups where actual host:port does not match public host:port

Before 16.11 this was not an issue because all links were without hostname:port. But now the login masks loads but the subsequent links all show the wrong port.

url.properties does control port/hostname but preferably we wouldn't need to configure it.

Issue Links

• relates to: OFBIZ-9206 Login and logout process in demo backends (Management Apps) shows a certificate issue