File upload is not working behind a reverse proxy

> Hi,
>
> I found the problem.
>
> In XFormsServer.java I had to remove the action attribute and  
> rebuild orbeon.
> It seems OK now.
>
> Thanks,
> Antoine
>
>
>
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]
> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:04 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] File upload is not working behind a reverse proxy
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using orbeon 3.6 and I'm having the following problem.
> Our internal server is located behind a reverse proxy, when trying  
> to use the file upload control orbeon seems to be sending a request  
> to the server. The response to this request contains the following:
>
>   <xxf:submission action="http://my_internal_server:7001/app/xforms- 
> server" method="POST"
>                   replace="instance"/>
>
> Instead it should send
>   <xxf:submission action="https://my_public_url/app/xforms-server"  
> method="POST"
>                   replace="instance"/>
>
>
> The result is that the submission is then sent to the wrong url and  
> the file is not uploaded.
>
> I also get a javascript error (Firebug):
> o.responseText has no properties
>  var xmlString = o.responseText.replace(/&lt;/g, "<").replace(/&gt;/
> g...
>
>
> Is this a problem with orbeon or a problem with the reverse proxy  
> configuration?
>
>
>
> Antoine
>
>
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> I'm not talking about the noscript mode but the normal mode.
>
> The problem is that we have the following architecture:
>
>            Reverse-proxy.url
>                   |
>                   |
>                   v
>             Load-balancing.url
>                /       \
>               /         \
> Internal-server-1.url    Internal-server-2.url
>
> Users from the "inside" acces the application through the Load-
> balancing.url and user from the "outside" through the Reverse-
> proxy.url
> From the inside everything is working well.
>
> But for the outside when doing a file upload orbeon tells the  
> browser to do a submit on a url (got with  
> externalContext.getRequest().getRequestURL() ) but the problem is  
> that for orbeon the server url is Load-balancing.url and not Reverse-
> proxy.url so the client is doing a submit to an internal url that  
> does not exist on the internet!
>
> What I did now is to remove the  
> externalContext.getRequest().getRequestURL() and replace it with  
> externalContext.getRequest().getContextPath() + "/xforms-server"
>
> So now instead off doing the submit to http://Internal-server.url/app/xforms-server 
>  I do a submit to /app/xforms-server, which should always be correct.
>
> I hope I have not broken anything else in doing this but I seems to  
> be working.
>
>
> Antoine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro Vernet [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:23 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: File upload is not  
> working behind a reverse proxy
>
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:19 AM, <Antoine.DE-
> [hidden email]> <[hidden email]
>> wrote:
>
>> What I've done now is to put the correct url in the nef properties
>> file and get it from there.
>> This means it is "hard coded" somewhere, which is not great.
>
> What is the "nef properties file" you're referring to? Are we still
> talking about the upload issue in noscript mode?
>
> Independently from the reverse proxy, some quick testing I did locally
> convinced me that the upload control in noscript mode is not working
> right now. Do you see something different in the version you are  
> using?
>
> Alex
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> I'm not talking about the noscript mode but the normal mode.
>
> The problem is that we have the following architecture:
>
>            Reverse-proxy.url
>                   |
>                   |
>                   v
>             Load-balancing.url
>                /       \
>               /         \
> Internal-server-1.url    Internal-server-2.url
>
> Users from the "inside" acces the application through the Load-
> balancing.url and user from the "outside" through the Reverse-
> proxy.url
> From the inside everything is working well.
>
> But for the outside when doing a file upload orbeon tells the  
> browser to do a submit on a url (got with  
> externalContext.getRequest().getRequestURL() ) but the problem is  
> that for orbeon the server url is Load-balancing.url and not Reverse-
> proxy.url so the client is doing a submit to an internal url that  
> does not exist on the internet!
>
> What I did now is to remove the  
> externalContext.getRequest().getRequestURL() and replace it with  
> externalContext.getRequest().getContextPath() + "/xforms-server"
>
> So now instead off doing the submit to http://Internal-server.url/app/xforms-server 
>  I do a submit to /app/xforms-server, which should always be correct.
>
> I hope I have not broken anything else in doing this but I seems to  
> be working.
>
>
> Antoine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro Vernet [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:23 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: File upload is not  
> working behind a reverse proxy
>
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:19 AM, <Antoine.DE-
> [hidden email]> <[hidden email]
>> wrote:
>
>> What I've done now is to put the correct url in the nef properties
>> file and get it from there.
>> This means it is "hard coded" somewhere, which is not great.
>
> What is the "nef properties file" you're referring to? Are we still
> talking about the upload issue in noscript mode?
>
> Independently from the reverse proxy, some quick testing I did locally
> convinced me that the upload control in noscript mode is not working
> right now. Do you see something different in the version you are  
> using?
>
> Alex
> --
> Orbeon Forms - Web 2.0 Forms, open-source, for the Enterprise
> Orbeon's Blog: http://www.orbeon.com/blog/
> Personal Blog: http://avernet.blogspot.com/
> Twitter - http://twitter.com/avernet
>
>
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