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Re: [FW-1] HTTP, HTTPS, and FW-1
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- Subject: Re: [FW-1] HTTP, HTTPS, and FW-1
- From: Christopher Gripp <[email protected]>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:19:55 -0700
- Comments: cc: Luis Aguilera <[email protected]>
- Reply-to: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 <[email protected]>
- Sender: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 <[email protected]>
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- Thread-topic: Re: [FW-1] Problem Running Shell Scripts on Nokia
Why not build a redirect page that points
http://hostname.ourcompany.com
to
https://hostname.ourcompany.com
That way users don't have to do anything.
Christopher Gripp
Systems Engineer
Axcelerant
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." G.K. Chesterton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Aguilera [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FW-1] HTTP, HTTPS, and FW-1
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> have an esoteric question.
>
> We have an apache webserver. This server has been accessible
> to the world with http. I recently acquired an ssl
> certificate and I'm now forcing all traffic to use https.
> To do this, I simply changed the FW rule to accept traffic
> only from the https service.
>
> It all works fine, except for one thing.
>
> If you go to the url https://hostname.ourcompany.com it works
> great. However, if you go to http://hostname.ourcompany.com
> you will eventually get a "page cannot be displayed... cannot
> find server or DNS error". The FW logs correctly show the
> http packet being dropped.
>
> Now, I've done a little research and found that error
> 403-4.htm (in IE) instructs the user to enter httpS://... as the url.
>
> Does any now how I can get FW-1 to respond back with a
> specific html error?
>
> thanks
>
> Luis Aguilera
> IT Manager
> BaseSix
>
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