Re: Accessing Xindice over https

John Ainsworth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to have a client which accesses Xindice via https? It 
> seems that xmldb:xindice://server:port is always resolved to 
> http://server:port. Is it possible to make it resolve to 
> https://server:port?
How about the following:

Use a web server https protocol on your database server. E.g. for the 
Apache webserver, you could use:
ProxyPass         /xindice  http://localhost:8082/xindice
ProxyPassReverse  /xindice  http://localhost:8082/xindice

I use Tomcat as my servlet engine. Ensure that you something like

<snip>
<!-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 -->
<!-- See proxy documentation for more information about using this. -->

    <Connector port="8082"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false"
               acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000"
               proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" />
</snip>

in your conf/server.xml.

I use this for other webapps, so I would assume that this works also for 
Xindice.
Additional security can be probably obtained with a proper configuration 
of your web server's firewall.
> thanks
> John
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