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BIRT WebViewer and Ports, dealing with HTTPS [message #902831] Mon, 20 August 2012 16:34 Go to next message
Raishad is currently offline RaishadFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Member
The short version of this is, is there a way to tell BIRT to use port
443 instead of 8280 (or whatever port the JBoss server is listening on)
in the HTML BIRT generates?

When I click on a report I get this window, it thinks about it for a
while and then I get a browser prompt

"Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?"



If I click ‘Yes’ the whole thing falls apart. If I click ‘No’ the report
parameters dialog comes up OK, and then if I look at the HTML I find
things like this:

<TITLE>BIRT Report Viewer</TITLE><BASE
href="http://server:8280/scereports/webcontent/birt"><!-- Mimics
Internet Explorer 7, it just works on IE8. -->
[snip…]
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>

var soapURL =
"http://server:8280/scereports/frameset?__report=report%2Fbilling%2FAccountSetup.rptdesign&__showtitle=false&__timezone=America%2FNew_York&__locale=en_US&__offsetMin=0";

var rtl = false;
</SCRIPT>
Then when I click OK in the parameters dialog I get the browser dialog

"This page is accessing information that is not under its control. This
poses a security risk. Do you want to continue?"


I assume that’s because clicking the OK button uses soapURL to redirect
to another site/port than was used in the original request.

The URL I am using to navigate to the report is https://server:443

Httpd.conf is set up with a ProxyPass directive to redirect any request
for /scereports on port 80 or 443 to the reports server on 8280. I
assume BIRT figures out what port it’s running on from the servlet
request and writes that URL into the HTML it generates. Is there a way
to tell BIRT to use port 443 instead of 8280?

I know that with the JBoss 5.1.0 SAML token environment we’re enabling
SSL between Apache and JBoss and changing the ProxyPass directive to use
the JBoss server’s SSL port. I’m working on that, but I’m not sure it’s
going to get rid of the second message dialog, because it’s still going
to be talking to a different port than the original request.
Re: BIRT WebViewer and Ports, dealing with HTTPS [message #902868 is a reply to message #902831] Mon, 20 August 2012 19:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jason Weathersby is currently offline Jason WeathersbyFriend
Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009
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Changing the base href may work.

You could manually change the base href in the frameset fragment jsp or
put the base_url property in the viewer.property files
http://www.scribd.com/doc/44412235/Birt-Viewer-User-Guide#outer_page_9

Jason

On 8/20/2012 12:34 PM, Raishad Maharaj wrote:
> The short version of this is, is there a way to tell BIRT to use port
> 443 instead of 8280 (or whatever port the JBoss server is listening on)
> in the HTML BIRT generates?
>
> When I click on a report I get this window, it thinks about it for a
> while and then I get a browser prompt
>
> "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered
> securely?"
>
>
>
> If I click ‘Yes’ the whole thing falls apart. If I click ‘No’ the report
> parameters dialog comes up OK, and then if I look at the HTML I find
> things like this:
>
> <TITLE>BIRT Report Viewer</TITLE><BASE
> href="http://server:8280/scereports/webcontent/birt"><!-- Mimics
> Internet Explorer 7, it just works on IE8. -->
> [snip…]
> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
>
> var soapURL =
> "http://server:8280/scereports/frameset?__report=report%2Fbilling%2FAccountSetup.rptdesign&__showtitle=false&__timezone=America%2FNew_York&__locale=en_US&__offsetMin=0";
>
>
> var rtl = false;
> </SCRIPT>
> Then when I click OK in the parameters dialog I get the browser dialog
>
> "This page is accessing information that is not under its control.
> This poses a security risk. Do you want to continue?"
>
>
> I assume that’s because clicking the OK button uses soapURL to redirect
> to another site/port than was used in the original request.
>
> The URL I am using to navigate to the report is https://server:443
>
> Httpd.conf is set up with a ProxyPass directive to redirect any request
> for /scereports on port 80 or 443 to the reports server on 8280. I
> assume BIRT figures out what port it’s running on from the servlet
> request and writes that URL into the HTML it generates. Is there a way
> to tell BIRT to use port 443 instead of 8280?
>
> I know that with the JBoss 5.1.0 SAML token environment we’re enabling
> SSL between Apache and JBoss and changing the ProxyPass directive to use
> the JBoss server’s SSL port. I’m working on that, but I’m not sure it’s
> going to get rid of the second message dialog, because it’s still going
> to be talking to a different port than the original request.
>
Re: BIRT WebViewer and Ports, dealing with HTTPS [message #903222 is a reply to message #902868] Wed, 22 August 2012 14:31 Go to previous message
Raishad is currently offline RaishadFriend
Messages: 77
Registered: July 2009
Member
Thanks, the viewer.properties change seems to be working

On 8/20/12 2:04 PM, Jason Weathersby wrote:
> Changing the base href may work.
>
> You could manually change the base href in the frameset fragment jsp or
> put the base_url property in the viewer.property files
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/44412235/Birt-Viewer-User-Guide#outer_page_9
>
> Jason
>
> On 8/20/2012 12:34 PM, Raishad Maharaj wrote:
>> The short version of this is, is there a way to tell BIRT to use port
>> 443 instead of 8280 (or whatever port the JBoss server is listening on)
>> in the HTML BIRT generates?
>>
>> When I click on a report I get this window, it thinks about it for a
>> while and then I get a browser prompt
>>
>> "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered
>> securely?"
>>
>>
>>
>> If I click ‘Yes’ the whole thing falls apart. If I click ‘No’ the report
>> parameters dialog comes up OK, and then if I look at the HTML I find
>> things like this:
>>
>> <TITLE>BIRT Report Viewer</TITLE><BASE
>> href="http://server:8280/scereports/webcontent/birt"><!-- Mimics
>> Internet Explorer 7, it just works on IE8. -->
>> [snip…]
>> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
>>
>> var soapURL =
>> "http://server:8280/scereports/frameset?__report=report%2Fbilling%2FAccountSetup.rptdesign&__showtitle=false&__timezone=America%2FNew_York&__locale=en_US&__offsetMin=0";
>>
>>
>>
>> var rtl = false;
>> </SCRIPT>
>> Then when I click OK in the parameters dialog I get the browser dialog
>>
>> "This page is accessing information that is not under its control.
>> This poses a security risk. Do you want to continue?"
>>
>>
>> I assume that’s because clicking the OK button uses soapURL to redirect
>> to another site/port than was used in the original request.
>>
>> The URL I am using to navigate to the report is https://server:443
>>
>> Httpd.conf is set up with a ProxyPass directive to redirect any request
>> for /scereports on port 80 or 443 to the reports server on 8280. I
>> assume BIRT figures out what port it’s running on from the servlet
>> request and writes that URL into the HTML it generates. Is there a way
>> to tell BIRT to use port 443 instead of 8280?
>>
>> I know that with the JBoss 5.1.0 SAML token environment we’re enabling
>> SSL between Apache and JBoss and changing the ProxyPass directive to use
>> the JBoss server’s SSL port. I’m working on that, but I’m not sure it’s
>> going to get rid of the second message dialog, because it’s still going
>> to be talking to a different port than the original request.
>>
>
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